Antarctic research and expeditions vol. 21

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BTS 102/2(21) 1 folder, 291 pages. Pages are out of order. Contains duplicates. Manuscript notes and documents. Some documents are hard to read. Note from the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Spanish) giving the programme of activities which Chile propose to carry out during the 1963/64 season. Letter to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs from the Embassy in Berne, 22 Jan. 1964, re. the Swiss Antarctic Expedition Article from “Soviet News”, 17 Jan. 1964, ‘Scientists are Hard at Work at Mirny’. Article from the “Pretoria News”, 13 Feb. 1964, ‘Antarctic Mountain Discovered’. Letter (in Afrikaans) to Die Sekretaris van Onderwys from Die Sekretaris van Vervoer, 8 Feb. 1964, ‘Vang van Diere en Voëls op Marion – En Gough Eyland – En Antarktika’. Information concerning the Ninth Soviet Antarctic Expedition 1963-65, Feb. 1964. Copy of selected pages of the “Cambridge University Reporter” dated 31 Dec. 1963, re. the accounts of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Letter to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs from the Ambassador in Washington D.C. (in Afrikaans), 2 Apr. 1964, ‘Antarktika: Besoek van amptelike uitruilwaarnemer’. Copy of Report (in Afrikaans) to the Ambassador in Washington D.C. from P.H.J.J. van Vuuren, 15 Mar. 1964, titled ‘Besoek aan Antarktika: 16 Jan. tot 8 Feb. as amptelike uitruilwaarnemer by die V.S.A. somer-ekspedisie’. Report by the National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., 15 Apr. 1964, titled ‘Projected Antarctic Science Program, 1964-69’. Letter to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs from the Consulate-General in Tokyo, 15 May 1964, ‘Japan and Antarctica’. Letter from the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to the Secretary for Transport and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 6 May and 29 Jun. 1964, re. the application from Prof. T.W. Gevers to be one of the observers with the U.S. Antarctic Expedition 1964-65. Letters to the Acting Secretary for Foreign Affairs from the Embassy in Washington D.C., 7 Aug. 1964, re. an Invitation for an Exchange of Scientists for the 1964-65 Austral Summer Season. Copy from the Embassy of the U.S.S.R. (one copy in Russian and one in English) with Supplementary Information on the Ninth Soviet Antarctic Expedition, received on 12 Aug. 1964. Letter (in Afrikaans) from Die Sekretaris van die Tesourie from Die Sekretaris van Vervoer, 14 Aug. 1964, ‘Aflosreis na Antarktika: Uitruil van Waarnemers’. Letter to the Acting Secretary for Foreign Affairs from the Embassy in Buenos Aires, 20 Aug. 1964, re. the Formation of a Chilean Antarctic Institute. Letter from Henry S. Francis Jr. of the International Cooperation and Information Programme to Dr. T.W. Gevers regarding the trip as an observer on the U.S. Antarctic Expedition. Correspondence between the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research re. the possibility of joint operations between the U.S. and S.A. during the U.S’s attempt to explore the last unexplored portions of Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau. D.C. Neethling’s itinerary as an observer with the U.S. Antarctic Expedition of 1964-65. Information from the Dutch and Belgian Embassy’s re. the Belgian-Netherlands Antarctic Expedition and other correspondence regarding this Expedition. Preliminary Report on Visits to Polar research institutions in Europe and the United States by D.C. Neethling. Letter (in both Afrikaans and English) from Die Sekretaris van Buitelandse Sake to both Die Sekretaris van Vervoer and Die President: Wetenskaplike en Nywerheidsnavorsingsraad, titled ‘Amerikaanse Bedrywighede in Antarktika’. Copy of a report from the “Soviet News”, 11 Feb. 1965, re. the Tenth Soviet Antarctic Expedition. Document titled ‘Antarctic treaty: Extensions, reductions and Modifications to the New Zealand Antarctic research programme 1964-65’. Letter to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs from the Embassy in Buenos Aires, 8 Jun. 1965, re. the Establishment of a New Argentine Base in the Antarctic. Letter from D.C. Neethling, Co-ordinating Geologist for Antarctic Research, to Dr. R.G. Shuttleworth, Office of the Scientific Attaché, Washington, 10 Jun. 1965, titled ‘Antarctic Research: Proposed South African Participation in the USARP – Queen Maud Land Traverse’. Correspondence re. an invitation from the U.S. for a representative of South Africa to accompany the American Expedition in 1965-66. Press release by the Australian Department of External Affairs: 10 Sep. 1965, ‘Australian Antarctic Party Uses Huskies’. 16 Sep. 1965, ‘Antarctic Huskies on 400 Mile Sledge Trip’. Aide Memoire from the Argentine Embassy, 21 Sep. 1965, accepting an invitation for an Argentine technician to accompany the next South African Antarctic Expedition and extending an invitation to a representative or technician of the South African Navy to participate in the Expedition organised by the Argentine Antarctic Naval Group for the 1965-66 season.