Preparations for the Field

November 1988

Tom Perrett arrived four days before Pyne at Scott Base and during this time had completed his survival course and prepared about half of the field equipment required. Some cargo including fuel had already been transported to Cape Roberts in mid October. Vehicles were not available until the day after Pyne arrived on 4 November.

Preparations for this event were handled promptly and efficiently by the OIC and his staff at Scott Base and we were able to depart for the field 3 days after Pyne's arrival. Equipment was stored at Cape Roberts for the return part of the field work in January 1989.

The January part of our field work was also handled efficiently from Scott Base enabling our event to fly to Granite Harbor the day after arrival at Scott Base.