DXpeditioners K9PPY - Jim VK6LC - Mal VK2PS - Steve CT1EEN - Sam On shore support VK6DLB - Dave VK6BHY - Mike Public relations I1JQJ - Mauro QSL manager I1HYW - Gianni WebMaster I121171 - Maury

VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Mal's 1 tonne trailer" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Mal with the VK6BHY 4WD and 2 tonne trailer" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "View of our VK3ATN Log yagi and operating facilities" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "View looking West,10kva generators, Rowley's Cafe, 6 el.log, ssb tent.preparing the Generator compound" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Jim and Mal preparing the Generator compound" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Part only of 2 tonnes of Dx-Qrm" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "KingFisher III, VK9RS Charter Boat" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "View looking west at Jim's Lagoon" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "View looking south of Sam's Beach at low tide." VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK9RS Team- Mal, Steve, Jim, Sam." The Rowley's Cafe. VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK9RS Team- Mal, Jim, Sam," Official Uniform" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK9RS Team- Steve, Mal, Jim, Sam." with the ATN 6. El-Log VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK9RS Team- Steve, Mal, Sam, Jim." VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK6ISL Mal 40m.ssb station" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK6ISL Mal 20m.ssb station" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK2PS Steve 20m.cw station" 2." VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK2PS Steve 15m.cw station" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK2PS Steve 20m ssb.station" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK6EEN Sam 15m.ssb station" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK6EEN Sam 20m.ssb station" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK8PY Jim 15m.ssb/cw station" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK8PY Jim 20m.ssb/cw station" "VK9RS Log Books" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "The official station log books". VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "VK9RS. Official signed Landing Certificate" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "The Canadian Amateur" March/April 2000. VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Official vk9rs Postage stamp 2." VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Official vk9rs Postage stamp 1." VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Calgary Chinook Award"  26.6.1999 VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "URE-Radioaficionados Magazine January 2000" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Amateur Radio Magazine March 2000" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. "Aerial view of Imperieuse reef" Cunningham Island white image to the left. VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island. 20-26 September 1999. Broome Times news paper. 6.10.199 "Amateurs go to graet lengths and frequencies" VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island, view looking south west. 20-26 September 1999. 20m. 4 square vertical array VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island, view looking west. 20-26 September 1999. Rowley's Cafe, SSB Tent and 6 element ATN Log Yagi. VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island, view looking north west, Rowley's Cafe and Light house in background. (left to right) Steve VK2PS-Mal VK6LC-Jim K9PPY-Sam CT1EEN. 20-26 September 1999. VK9RS Rowley Shoals Dxpedition. OC.230 Imperieuse Reef, Cunningham Island at high side, view looking west. 20-26 September 1999. Imperieuse Reef, view looking west from Cunnigham island at low tide Imperieuse Reef, view looking north/west to the Light House at low tide Imperieuse Reef, view looking south/west from Cunnigham Island at low tide Imperieuse Reef, view looking west at the Light House at high tide. Imperieuse Reef, view looking west at the southern tip of Cunnigham Island at high tide All photos provided courtesy of: Dept. C.A.L.M. Broome. Western Australia.

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In September 1999 Malcolm K. Johnson, VK6LC will be ready for a multi-national DXpedition to a very remote place, NEW ONE for IOTA (the unnumbered IOTA group is WESTERN AUSTRALIAN OUTLIERS). the Rowley Shoals are located in the Indian Ocean, 180 nautical miles west of Broome in the tropical far north of Western Australia. They are large emergent morphological shelf atolls arising from depths of between 300 and 700 metres along the edge of the continental shelf. The Rowley Shoals consist of three atolls that lie north-south in latitude. The most northern is Mermaid Reef, 29 km to the centre is Clerke Reef and 42 km to the south is IMPERIEUSE REEF (17.35S-11.55E), the place where the DXpeditioners will land. The shoals were given their collective name in 1818 by Capt. P.P. King, who first described their relative positions. He named the three atolls Mermaid after his ship, Clerke (after Clerke, who reported it from a whaler between 1800 and 1809) and Imperieuse after the vessel from which it was sighted by Capt. Rowley in 1800. Imperieuse Reef is approximately 18 km long and 10 km wide. The only portion maintaned above the high water mark is Cunningham Island, a sand cay Approximately 800 metres long and 250 metres wide. It is positioned at the north tip of the reef and it is where an automatic light and weather station is located.

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