tiabunna's photos with the keyword: DUKW

From an old slide. Everything was taken ashore in the DUKWS (WW2 vintage amphibious vehicles): people, boxes, and hundreds of fuel drums.

From an old slide, copied too small here long ago. This construction site was known, at the time, as Repstat - short for Replacement Station. The old Wilkes base, built by the USA during the 1958 International Geophysical Year, was across the bay behind the ship, but mostly buried under metres of snow and in an unsafe condition. We spent a fortnight working here and, when we left, had erected a line of huts up the right of the road (one of the DUKWs on the road). The new station was later named Casey, but It has since been rebuilt yet again in a much more substantial form. You can see it here (also a 48 hour webcam video). While we were there, another of the Lauritzen Line "Dan" ships, the Thala Dan also arrived and we saw the very uncommon sight of two of them in an Antarctic port together (see PiP). Some of the old Wilkes base buildings are visible on the horizon in this image. UPDATE FOOTNOTE: I've updated this image, but unfortunately I'm unable to put it in a larger copy (short of creating a new posting). I've updated it because Today (19 Feb 2022) is the 54th anniversary of the official opening of the Casey station that we helped build.

Taken during the annual changeover of expeditions. Looking across the main part of the station down the isthmus toward the main part of the island. In the foreground, the surgery is being extended, while in the distance on the left, a DUKW is unloading meteorological stores.

First send someone in front to get the seals out of the way! From an old Kodachrome slide.

Landing at Macquarie Island, December 1967. From an old Kodachrome slide.

Updated from my original posting and originally on F..r. I'd been copying some old slides. For many years, the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) used WWII amphibious army vehicles known as DUKWS as cargo lighters. Here one is being loaded on the Nella Dan.