ABSTRACT
From the beginning of Antarctic exploartion, scientific research has been a part, indeed the main part, of human activity in the region. As demonstrated by the IGY, national research efforts are enhanced greatly when nations cooperate in research. The first hint of the problem's existence arose in Canberra tinder an agenda item on logistics. Australia seems to have raised the issue by pressing for broader cooperation in logistical matters. Later in the Canberra Meeting, the Australian delegation came forward to propose a Recommendation calling for a meeting of telecommunications experts. Of chief concern were meteorological reports because the time lag between the actual taking of the measurements and the receipt of the report often made data too old to be of value to forecasters. On logistical matters, the Meeting's discussion occurred with the knowledge that SCAR was staging a symposium on the exchange of information on logistics in Boulder, Colorado during August 1962.
