Bedrock and ice surface topography of the coastal regions of Antarctica between 48°E and 64°E

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Allison, Ian, Frew, Rowan, Knight, Ian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1982
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; Austral; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400018994; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400018994

Between the austral summers of 1975–76 and 1979–80 the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) carried out field programmes in geology, geophysics, surveying and mapping, biology and glaciology in Enderby and Kemp lands, Antarctica (Fig 1). The glaciological research consisted of three closely related major projects: the determination of the mass flux across a section of the ice sheet, approximately along the 2 000 m elevation contour between 53°E and 62°E; an investigation of the dynamics and mass balance of the fast flowing outlet glacier streams between longitudes 48°E and 62°E; and a regional survey of the ice thickness and ice surface elevation over the same sector and up to about 250 km inland from the coast.