International Symposium on Antarctic Meteorology

Figure 34 Participants at the International Symposium on Antarctic Meteorology held in the building of the Royal Society Melbourne 18–25 February, 1959. Left to right front row: Hogan, Gray, Wadati, L. J. Dwyer, Miss Phillips, Van Mieghem. Zimmerman, Brann, Hopper. Second row: Loewe, Kerr, Dzerdeevski. Hannan, Karelsky, Ball, Langford, Priestley, Debenham, Arnold. Third row: Pound, Radok, Gibbs, Lamb. Fourth row: Shaw, Robin, Panwrini, Rubin, Phillpot, Langlo, MacDowell, Wilcock. Back row: Clarke, Treloar, Gabites, McRae, Wilson, Mackey, Hannay, Simmers, Thompson, Taljaard.

The efforts of a wide range of people in the Bureau's Central Office were necessary to plan the program of the symposium, arrange the accommodation and facilities, develop a schedule of social activities including an official reception and a barbecue in the Dandenong ranges and preprint a program which included abstracts in English, French and Russian of all papers to be presented. Much of this work was accomplished by Frank Hannan, Gwynne Wilson and Val Phillips, members of the Bureau's Central Office staff.

The symposium held from 18 to 25 February 1959 at the Royal Society of Victoria was attended by 70 participants, one each from Argentina, Belgium, Japan, South Africa and WMO, two from the USSR, three from France, four from New Zealand, five each from the UK and US and the balance from other nations.

Antarctic veterans included Dr F Debenham and Sir Raymond Priestley, members of the Scott Polar Expedition of 1910 to 1913, and Captain J. K. Davis and Dr B. Stilwell of Sir Douglas Mawson's Australian Antarctic Expeditions. Dr Kaare Langlo represented WMO, and Dr G. de Q. Robin, the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

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