Antarctic Record (Nov 1988)

Report on the geological, geomorphological and geodetic field work and meteorite search in the Sør Rondane Mountains, 1988 (JARE-29)

  • Masao Asami,
  • Hiroshi Makimoto,
  • Masamu Aniya,
  • Masahisa Hayashi,
  • Yuzaburo Iimura,
  • Takashi Hayashi,
  • Hiroshi Naraoka,
  • Yasuhisa Yonezawa,
  • Shuji Fujita,
  • Edward S. Grew

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15094/00008602
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 3
pp. 334 – 363

Abstract

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The ten-man summer field party of the 29th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-29) carried out geological, geomorphological and geodetic field work and a meteorite search in the Sør Rondane Mountains, mainly east of Byrdbreen (71°40'-72°15'S, 26°30'-28°E) from January 6 to February 3,1988 (29 days). In addition, on December 21 and 22,1987,two surveyors from our party took aerophotographs in the eastern and central parts of the mountains, using a "Pilatus Porter" plane. Being favored by good weather and no serious accident, we were able to complete most of the work that we had planned. This paper is a description of the field operation including logistics and a brief report on the geological, geomorphological and geodetic field work, meteorite search and aerophotography.