Russian Scientist For Antarctic
A Russian scientist, Mr Sveneld Yevteyev, who will work at the United States Antarctic expedition’s base on Ross Island in McMurdo Sound, this summei. is expected to arrive in Christchurch on Friday, according to advice received at the expedition’s headquarters in Christchurch.
Mr Yevteyev will leave Lyttelton aboard the Arneb for McMurdo Sound on Friday afternoon.
His work with the United States Antarctic expedition is part of a scheme of exchange of scientists between the American and Russian expeditions in the Antarctic.
The exchange programme has been resumed after being suspended a year ago. It was first arranged under the auspices of the International Geophysical Year. A seismologist from the Call*,
fornian Institute of Technology, Mr Gilbert Dewart, is already at Mirny, the chief Soviet base In Antarctica.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29107, 20 January 1960, Page 16
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