1976/77 V3 details

General information

Season

1976/77

Voyage

V3

Ship

Thala Dan

Leader

Voyage Leader

William Francis Young

Deputy Voyage Leader

Richard Milne Lightfoot

Comments

Shore visit to Dumont d'Urville and used the French facilities as a base for the helicopter flight to Commonwealth Bay. Purpose of the visit was to close up all roof hatches to try to reduce the amount of drift entering and also stop the wind doing more structural damage to Mawson's Hut. Sledge RTAd to Adelaide Museum.

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	1-Feb-1977	Casey	11-Feb-1977
Casey	18-Feb-1977	Dumont D'Urville	24-Feb-1977
Dumont D'Urville	1-Mar-1977	Hobart	9-Mar-1977

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

See the 1976/77 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.