1970/71 V4 details

General information

Season

1970/71

Voyage

V4

Ship

MS Nella Dan

Leader

Voyage Leader

Eric Leslie Macklin

Deputy Voyage Leader

William Francis Young

Comments

Nella Dan left Fremantle with the second group of the Mawson party. After ollecting the physicist who had completed his summer project at Davis, Nella went at full speed to collect two helicopters from Mawson and proceed to Heard Island to rescue Ian Holmes who was stranded on the Gotley Glacier with a broken leg. Three members of the Heard Island summer party were taken on board, the ship moved round to the south coast and Holmes was rescued, Holmes returned with Nella Dan on her passage via Mawson to Melbourne. The Prince Charles Mountains party and their aircraft were taken on board on 28 Feb. During these operations the USCGS Staten Island came to within some thirty miles of Mawson, and an American Party flew into Mawson by helicopter to conduct an official inspection under the terms of Article VII of the Antarctic treaty. Staten Island, waiting for the return of the inspection team, struck an uncharted submerged rock and suffered fairly extensive damage, but was not disabled. Nella Dan remained within easy sailing distance of Staten Island for the major part of its voyage to Australia for repairs.

Voyage Reports

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Schedule

From	Depart	To	Arrive
Fremantle	2-Feb-1971	Davis	15-Feb-1971
Davis	15-Feb-1971	Mawson	17-Feb-1971
Mawson	17-Feb-1971	Heard Island	21-Feb-1971
Heard Island	21-Feb-1971	Mawson	25-Feb-1971
Mawson	3-Mar-1971	Melbourne	16-Mar-1971

See also List of sitreps - not guaranteed to work as voyage naming conventions are not consistent.

See the 1970/71 Voyage Schedule for other voyages for this season.

Voyage track

Spatial bounds of voyage

No track has been constructed.

Voyage Data and Activities

Biological Collections

List of collections of species data collected on this voyage. Some collections are voyage specific or might be from a wider set of observations or samples.

Collection Name	Observation count	Link to data search form
Whale log - observations from ANARE voyages	13	Search

Voyage activities

There are no data related activities recorded for this voyage.

Weather

There is no weather data for this voyage.

Science Projects

Note - this page lists projects where there has been some requirements logged. This may include requests that are not directly associated with any science performed on the ship.

No Australian Antarctic Science Projects for voyage. See Current and Previous Projects for details on other projects.