Antarctic Visit
The Governor General (Sir Arthur Porritt) will be one of the United States Navy’s distinguished guests at McMurdo Station this season.
Rear-Admiral J. L. Abbot, commander of the United States Navy’s Antarctic support force, announced yesterday that the Governor-Gene-ral would visit Antarctica some time in January. Other guests would include prominent Americans such as Mr T. Watson, the chairman of the International Business Machine company, and Mr D. Ripley, curator of the Smithsonian Institution. About a dozen United States Congressmen would also visit the ice as guests of the Antarctic Policy Group. They would be from the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and the Science and Astronautics Committee. Admiral Abbot said that three parties of foreign exchange representatives would also go this summer. Representatives of the countries which are signatories to the Antarctic Treaty, they will come from the Argentine, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31831, 8 November 1968, Page 12
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