The Picts – Multiple Authors
Picts Team Report, 1969 & 1970 – Rod Pashley
The red lines are the first summer survey in 1969; the blue lines the second summer, 1970. The shaded areas are the work areas. There were numerous journeys on Adelaide Island.
The Picts traveled a total of over 4,000 miles over 2 years.
Picts Team Report, 1972 & 1973 – John Yates
INTRODUCTION
The Picts are a very strong steady team but fairly slow. A little short on intelligence perhaps, but probably less aggressive than most other teams. Very affectionate and generally easy to control. A pleasure and a privilege to ‘boss’ for two years survey.
.hi John I am very pleased to see that the Picts did so much travel during their years after I left.
I made up the tears at Adelaide in 1967 beacause there was only one team when I arrived in November 1966 , the Huns and and named them after the Picts from a tribe from northern Scotland. I came from Inverness.
Eric Wilkinson was the other dogman with the Huns and for safety we needed two teams . We learned a great deal from a visit by Geordie Macleod who came across from Stonington via Rothera during the winter with John Noble . We didn’t do a great deal of mileage that year, we were both met men .
I have been in Australia since 1970 and working for the Aussie’s ANARE from 1975 to 2003 and several Antarctic toursist companies until 2017 as a lecturer boat driver. I keep in touch with Ali MacArthur BC Stonnington now in Melbourne and Graham Smith who wintered at Fossil Bluff with men and lives in Edinburgh.