SNOW'S TRAVELS
A visit to Kerguelen Island 1963 - John Williams (Wilkes 1959 Mawson 1962) Returning from my year as a Diesel mechanic at Mawson in 1962, onboard the lovely Danish icebreaker Nella Dan, we visited Heard Island first, then a day later, on the 11th March 1963 we stopped at Kerguelen. Here our director Phil Law organised with the French hierarchy a collecting trip inland. Our party consisted of Dr Dave Wigg, Chris a former Macquarie Island biologist , Rex Filson our Lichenologist /carpenter and myself. Dave and Chris were to collect specimens in Lake Studer. This lake stopped further travel up the large open valley. Rex and I were to collect lichens plus other vegetation for the Melbourne Herbarium. Our party went ashore on the first barge and set off for about 60 kilometres inland with three Frenchmen driving
