Fiordland Expedition Makes Camps
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DUNEDIN, Jan, 12. . The first camp established by the American-New Zealand" natural history and scien^ific expedition to Fiordland, is now f unetioning and preparations are already being made to move most •of the equipment and stores to a secondary camp. When more personnel and stores. arrive near the -end of this month, a base camp at the head of the Stillwater Bivcr, will be established. Colonel John K, Howard, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, is well satisfied with the progress made so far. His desire to see wapiti was quiekly satisfied for three of the animals were waiting the party on the Caswell Sounds beachhead where stores were landed. OoJonel Howard, on a preiiminary survey bf bhe Lake Marchant camp site, the second proposed camp, filmed a wapiti eow and ealf. Bird life was abundant and although no takahe were observed, there were the weka, duck, pigeon, rifleman wren, and others. Lake Marchant camp is ahnost two miles from the beaelihead and the ground between rises about 600 feet. It takes abont 35 minutes to walk the distance but that time may be shortened when a traek is cleared to enable scientific equipment to be carried through
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 January 1949, Page 8
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