Dept Will Consider Sub-Antarctic Visits
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, February 7. The Lands and Survey Department will consider allowing tourists to visit the subAntarctic island reserves administered by the department.
The assistant director of administration of reser/es and national parks, Mr P. H. C. Lucas, said today that future policy would be considered in the light of experience from the two Magga Dan tours and the report from the honorary ranger, Mrs M. Darby, who accompanied the Magga Dan.
The organiser of the Magga Dan tours to the Antarctic, Mr Lars-Eric Linblad, said at Bluff on Sunday that the Lands and Survey Department would have to relax its ruling on keeping tourists from visiting the Auckland and Antipodes Islands if cruises from New Zealand to the Antarctic were to continue.
Ten-Day Trip The trip to the Ross Sea took 10 days and there was nothing to enliven the journey except visits to islands on the way.
Mr Lucas said gome of the islands administered by the department in the sub-Ant-arctic were natural communities of world-wide significance to scientists; and allowing landings would be inconsistent with the purpose for which they were reserved as sanctuaries.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19680208.2.166
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31598, 8 February 1968, Page 15
Word Count
195Dept Will Consider Sub-Antarctic Visits Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31598, 8 February 1968, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in