Shackman, thank you for your answer.
As for this precise observation:
I would be very surprised if that was in Yorke Bay - it was heavily mined with both anti tank and anti personnel devices, and it was a good few years before any clearance was carried out. If, however, it was taken on 29 Dec 82 it was of the only 'heavy' digger/dozer the engineers had on the island at the time.
I must tell you I agree with you: that beach had been heavily mined.
Still, the reference I have mentiones Yorke Bay. Since I remember reading about some fast de-mining activity carried oud by RE personal after June 18th around the airstrip and beyond the area, and adding to that the fact that Stanley´s jetty was no use given the volumes and speed requiered for RE´s equipment to be offloaded... well, I just thought that it could all relate.
There´s another detail in the picture that makes me think about the Pembroke Peninsula: those two isles in the back. Aren´t they the Toussac Island, just a few houndred meters north of the peninsula´s shore.
Could it be that the beach was not actually Yorke but the one east of it?
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Cheers!
Christian
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