1971/72 V1 details

General information

Season

1971/72

Voyage

V1

Ship

MS Nella Dan

Leader

Voyage Leader

Graeme William McKinnon

Deputy Voyage Leader

Alan D Parker

Comments

A magnetometer installed and operated by personnel from the University of New South Wales was put overboard as soon as the vessel cleared Bass Strait. High winds prevented a landing on Macquarie until 23 Nov. Botanists, geologists, a geomorphologist, and geophysicists carried out summer programs. An officer from the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture continued the survey of the rabbit population and the distribution of rabbit fleas, and collected rabbit eye lenses for examination in Australia. Two biologists continued studies of the Light-mantled Sooty Albatross and Giant Petrels. A plaque in memory of Brenton Sellick, a weather observer with the outgoing 1971 party who had been killed in a fall in Jan 1971 was unveiled. The ship carried out a magnetometer and depth-sounding survey on the return voyage.

Voyage Reports

No reports known - if you know of any, please contact the Data Centre and we can add them.

Schedule

From	Depart	To	Arrive
Melbourne	16-Nov-1971	Macquarie Island	20-Nov-1971
Macquarie Island	27-Nov-1971	Melbourne	2-Dec-1971

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

See the 1971/72 Voyage Schedule for other voyages for this season.

Voyage track

Spatial bounds of voyage

No track has been constructed.

Voyage Data and Activities

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.