U.S. ICE-BREAKER ON WAY HOME
Twenty-one passengers from Antarctica disembarked at Lyttelton when the naval icebreaker Atka berthed on Tuesday morning. Most were servicemen returning to the United States. Three were oceanographers and two biologists. The biologists are Mr D. Thompson, of Wisconsin University, who has been studying the breeding habits of penguins at Cape Hallett, and Mr U. Kinet, of the Bishop Museum. Hawaii, who has been observing insects and plants in Terra Nova Bay and the Ross Archipelago, with
’special emphasis on volcanic areas. Mr Kinet was born in Belgium. After the Atka left Lyttelton for McMurdo Sound late in January she did normal escort duties and then an oceanographic survey between McMurdo Sound and Cape Haiklt. She left Cape Hallett on February 28 and waited until the supply freighter Wyandot had cleared McMurdo Sound before leaving for Lyttelton on March 2. The Atka refuelled on Tuesday and is expected to Mil this morning for Melbourne on her way home to Boston. Her next assignment is expected to be in the Greenland area.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 15
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