CAMPBELL ISLAND STATION
Relief Party Due In November
“The Press” Special Service' DUNEDIN, August 31. Ten men who have for the last 10 months maintained the meteorological and radio-tele-graph stations on lonely Campbell Island, 150 miles south-east of the Auckland Islands, are now looking forward to their relief in November. , The servicing vessel is expected in about two months and a half, taking with it a new “crew” and provisions for the next 12 months. Mail —the only link the men have with their homes apart from radio-telephone connexion—last arrived in* June, and the next is due at the end of September. A carpenter is among those at present on the island, and the new camp buildings are being completed. In a radio-telephone conversation from the island a member of the party said the weather during the winter had been good. There had not been much snow, although there had been quite a bit of wind and low cloud. Wild life, practically the only thing that changes on the island -—is now starting to reappear, particularly birds, which are now beginning the nesting period.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28679, 1 September 1958, Page 17
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