Back page 1"BIG BEN"' from ANARE Station (Atlas Cove)
January to March 1971
F2JD : After one year in Kerguelen Island FB8XX (Geophysics) I went to Heard Island with the "Gallieni"ship for a 45 days Franco-Australian scientific expedition. I was radio operator there. During the beginning of the expedition, one of the three Australian members broke a leg on the glacier. His too friends leading by Dr Graham Budd leave the tent and food for him on the glacier and reach the Atlas Cove main camp two days later. We asked help by radio (first via Kerguelen then directly to Melboune) for a ship with an helicopter as our friend was locked in an inaccessible crevasse place on the glacier. The "Maga Dan" ship reach us with an helicopter 10 days later after loading the chopper from a Antarctic Base and airlift the mountaineer from the crevasse. Then, the climber guy says : I was not expecting you so quickly...HI...
Heard Island