What was scheduled to be our last day on the Mertz, we started by taking the rock hoppers up to Point Pigeon, to construct their seismic station, then picked them up afterwards. Again, nothing in the way of a decent landing spot, and the one that I found was changed to one with a significant slope down to a sheer drop over the cliff
Then we took the geologists across the Mertz to Penguin Point, where we discovered an abandoned camp, which appears to be recently uncovered after maybe 50 years of being buried. AAD are quite interested, the photos show quite a few artefacts which are unlikely to be around once the winds and weather get their way.
Back at L'Astrolabe, waiting for a clear deck:
Near the Mertz, this fall from the edge of the ice has sent shock waves out over the pack ice: and shows how high the cliff face really is
The Mertz crack: due to let go 100 years of ice sometime soon....
