Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha

Abstract

BLO 692 PS 37/3 1 folder, 164 pages. Manuscript notes and documents. Some documents are hard to read. Note containing the dates of the departure of the Slava from Cape Town for the wahling ground and her return to that port. Letters from the Political Secretary to the Secretary for External Affairs entitled: Russian Whaling off Gough Island, 27.6.52; Gough Island Scientific Survey, 4.4.55; Proposed Expedition to Gough Island, 24.5.55. Sketch map of Gough Island. Gough Island Scientific Survey, by J.B. Heaney, 16.3.55. Letter from the Sec. for Ext. Affairs to the S.A. High Commissioner entitled South African participation in the activities of the International Geophysical Year: Establishment of a scientific observation station on Gough Island, 21.12.55; Gough Island: Continuation of Weather Station, 27.9.58; Gough Island: Wireless Station ZOE.33, 20.8.59; Gough Island: Wireless Licence, 14.12.60. Letter from the Sec. for Transport to the Leader: Gough Island Scientific Survey entitled Purchase of hut and certain equipment on Gough Island, 1.3.56. Letter from the Director: Trigsurvey to the Director of Overseas Survey entitled Proposed magnetic observations on the islands of Gough and Tristan da Cunha, 12.2.58. Letters from the Minister to the Sec. for Ext. Affairs entitled: Royal Society Expedition to Tristan da Cunha, 17.11.61; Clearance for South African Frigate ‘Transvaal’, 3.1.62; Salvaging of Meteorological Station Equipment from Tristan da Cunha, 17.1.62. Minute 4 of the meeting of the South Pacific Expedition Committee re. Tristan da Cunha, 7.11.61. Tristan da Cunha Expeditions Committee: Memorandum Concerning the Desirability of a Scientific Investigation of the 1961 Volcano Eruption on the Island of Tristan da Cunha, 14.11.61. Letter from J.A. King, Chief Scientific Liaison Officer entitled Proposed Royal Society Expedition to Tristan da Cunha, 17.11.61. Visits of Commonwealth Naval Units to Colonial Ports: Notification Procedure Letters from the Ambassador to the Sec. for Foreign Affairs entitled: Return to their homes of the former inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, 27.7.62; Draft Code of Rules on the Exploration and Uses of Outer Space, 3.12.62; Thirteenth Meeting of the Scientific Council for Africa, 3.12.62. Newspaper clippings: Russians visited Gough Island: Fishermen report signs of Slava landing, Cape Times, 2.5.52 + Six Returning to Tristan: Leaving next week on exploration visit, The Times, 2.8.62 + Tristanians clean up damage, Daily Telegraph, 20.9.62 + Return to Tristan: Britain willing to help, The Guardian, 28.11.62 + Tristan Exiles vote for home, The Telegraph, 4.12.62.