Commander Jenny Daetz and Lieutenant Commander Jan Noonan

Jenny Daetz and Jan NoonanCommander Jenny Daetz (Morrison) (1968 -  )

In 2001 Royal Australian Navy hydrographic officer, Lieutenant Commander Jenny Daetz became the first RAN surveyor in seventy years to visit Mawson’s Hut in isolated Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. Lieutenant Commander Daetz charted navigational hazards in previously poorly-charted channels and also updated the tidal data collected by Sir Douglas Mawson in 1912.

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