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Immediate report of Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition 1989-90: VUWAE 34

Event Diary

Event Diary

Oct 16 Buckley and Southon travel to Antarctic
Oct 17 Sea ice training
Oct 18 Snow craft course for Southon, preparation for the field.
Oct 19 Preparation for the field.
Oct 21 Preparation for the field.
Oct 22 Preparation for the feild.
Oct 23 Travel to experimental site, Tent Island, and set up camp with K131.
Oct 24 Continue with set up of camp.
Oct 25 Very bad weather, −19°C wind ~ 30 knots. Visit Camp Evans to help with compressor.
Oct 26 Start optical experiments near camp site - site A. Trodahl and Riches fly to Antarctic.
Oct 27 Continue optical experiments at site A.
Oct 28 Instal thermistor array and continue optical work at A. Sea ice course for Trodahl and snow craft for Riches. Trodahl arrives at Tent Island.
Oct 29 Continue optical work. Begin heat capacity experiment on ice at site A. Riches arrives at Tent Island.
Oct 30 Calibration of optical sources. Continue heat capacity experiment.
Oct 31 Undertake a complete set of optical experiments and sea ice physical property measurements near camp.
Nov 1 Continue heat capacity and ice core photo at site A.
Nov 2 Physical property measures, core photo and optical experiment at new site, site B.
Nov 3 Repeat optical experiments at site A. Initiate density measurements at site A.
Nov 4 Very high winds, no work.
Nov 5 High winds again. Trodahl to Scott Base.
Nov 6 UV backscattering at site A, high winds.
Nov 7 High winds, no work.
Nov 8 High winds still, some optical work but data of poor quality.
Nov 9 Good day. Full optical and physical property measurements including density at sue A.
Nov 10 High winds again, no work.
Nov 11 High winds.
Nov 12 High winds.page 99
Nov 13 Full set of optical and physical property data at site A.
Nov 14 Buckley back to Scott Base.
Nov 15 Buckley fly to New Zealand, some optical measurements.
Nov 16 Pack up camp.
Nov 17 Trodahl, Southon and Riches return to Scott Base.
Nov 18 Bad weather prevents travel to New Zealand.
Nov 19 Bad weather prevents travel to New Zealand.
Nov 20 Bad weather prevents travel to New Zealand.
Nov 21 Trodahl. Southon and Riches return to New Zealand.