Across West Antarctica |
Common terms and phrases
ahead altimeter Amundsen Sea Antarctic Antarctica Axtell barrier edge base blowing snow Byrd Station cache Chapman clear climbed clouds compass cooking covered Crary Mountains crevasse zone crevasse-free crevassed areas D-8 camp detector Doumani driving drove drums Edsel Ford ELLSWORTH STATION equipment escarpment Executive Committee Range Father Bradley feet Filchner Ice Shelf finished flags fuel gear Getz Ice Shelf glaciology cat Goodwin Grand Chasm halted helicopter Hoffman ice axes landed large crevasse lead cat loaded look markers McMurdo Mogas morning mountains nautical miles navy nunataks o'clock Otters outcrops passed peak pilot Pirrit plane probe radio contact reached rock roof rope route sastrugi scientific seismologists shovel sleeping Sno-Cat snow bridge snow melter snow surface stopped temperature thick tracks tractor trail travelled traverse party trip Turcotte turn vehicles Vinson wall wanigan weather WEDDELL SEA West Antarctica white-out wind winter yards