Dan
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Thanks for that link. Interesting. Best I can tell, those stats are for the New Zealand operations only, an do not inlcude any SAR work from Argentina, Australia, or others. Also, there is no mention of what caused the SAR operations to take place.....I was curious if PLBs had initiated any of the actions. I did look around (inspired by your link) and found this: https://documents.ats.aq/ATCM42/att/ATCM42_att095_e.pdf
which mentions that there is more and more PLB use in Antarctica, but there is a problem with many of them not being registered. Consequently, one of the Action Items from the workshop was: "Pre‐deployment check for registration of Personnel Locator Beacons (PLBs) (that you have awareness of) that are going to be used in the Antarctic Treaty area. "
I’m in Ushuaia, Argentina, now and notice that they use Australia / New Zealand plug to charge your electronic devices. That indicates that the Australian influence is strong here.