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20th Nov 2009, 19:13

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John Eacott

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As with flying to DDU, the distance to the glacier was a problem as we needed to first sling some drums of fuel to use during the day, plus a long trip to the Mertz before we started 'work'. This was a small berg we passed along the way

and the western (ocean) end of the crack

The GPS stations from 2 years ago were all buried, we only found one out of six: it was originally 2.3 metres above the surface

Then the glaciologists got to work on the new units. They were working in -20C, with a wind chill down around -35C, so I was (relatively) happy to be sitting inside the helicopter, which I couldn't shut down because of the frozen Fuel Control cable

and the important scientific research: Tim Tams on glacial snow are definitely better than Mint Slices

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