HOW OUTPOST WAS ESTABLISHED ON CAMPBELL ISLAND
H M.N.Z.S. Pukaki (heading south) This Day.
Dunedin, from where the Pukaki left this afternoon with three relief personnel for the Campbell Island meteorological station, is one of the links in the chain which led to the establishment on June 15, 1941, of the isolated station. A small German steamer, the Erlangen, sailed from. Dunedin a few days before war was declared and by replenishing her nearly empty bunkers with rata firewood from Auckland Islands, reached South America. The War Cabinet decided to establish coast-watching stations to prevent German warships from using the harbours of the Campbell and Auckland islands for refuelling from supply ships. Sixty-nine days after this decision was reached, the aerodromes section of the Public Works Department established the first party at the Auckland Islands on March 10, 1941, and the Campbell Island station was set up four months later. The coast watchers were on duty from dawn to dark.
The Campbell Island station was subsequently extended and plays an important post-war role in the accurate forecasting of weather reports from the far south.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1949, Page 10
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