Expedition nears end of travels
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney - The Oceanic Research Foundation expedition to Antarctica, headed by a New Zealander, Dr David Lewis, expects to be back at Sydney in about three weeks. Barbara Muhvich, a journalist crew member of the expedition in the Dick Smith Explorer, a former fishing vessel, said yesterday that they had left the French base on Petrel Island, Dumont D’Urville, and were on the way back to Sydney. Two biologists from Christchurch, Mr Paul Ensor
and Miss Jeni Bassett, said their activities had centred on counting penguins, one of the most important consumers of krill, a shrimp-like creature. The largest colony of penguins they studied was on the Mackellar Islands. They left the ship at Cape Denison, travelled by inflatable boat through greater Mackellar Islands and camped among the penguins for three days, counting about 25,000 chicks. But in spite of a constant look-out for krill, the two scientists had been unable to see any. Whale sightings had been infrequent.
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Press, 1 March 1982, Page 6
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