Christmas day with six meteorites!

Recon team, 25th December, 2012, South Graves Glacier Happy Christmas! The wind and snow blowing dropped a little today allowing the recon team to get out for a few hours this Christmas afternoon at South Graves Icefield. We collected the two meteorites that we had found a few days back,...

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Mini Wadhwa (ANSMET Systematic Search Team), December 24, 2012, Larkman Nunatak …and all through the Scott tent, not a creature was stirring, not even the katabatic wind’s lament! Actually, there has been quite a lot of stirring on this Christmas Eve here in camp. In fact, it was a regular workday...

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Tent Day

Jim Karner, December 22, 2012 Larkman Nunatak Well it’s a tent day, all day, here at Larkman. A tent day is one where the team is confined to camp, we can’t go out and hunt meteorites. Tent days are caused by a few different things, like it is too windy...

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The Real Antarctica

Katie Joy, South Graves Icefield, 22nd December 2012 Hello world Hope that you are all still there as I think yesterday was earmarked to be the end of the world according to the Mayans. I didn’t put it my diary though so not sure if the date has passed or not....

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Recon team stuck in a storm

Tomoko Arai, 21th December, 2012, South Graves Glacier We have had very bad weather with temperature of -25degC and strong wind of 20-30 knots both yesterday and today. We are close to the South Pole (87 degree south latitude), and are in the middle of the strong wind, the so-called...

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A chilly but rewarding day

Andrew Beck, December 20th 2012, Larkman Nunatak, Antarctica With -15 air temperature and 13-15 knot winds, today was a rather brisk day at Larkman Nunatak. We awoke to a marginal amount of snowdrift around our equipment, but not enough to hamper the start of the day. Our first order of...

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