Utilization of snowmobiles for Antarctic meteorite search of the 20th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (1978-1980)

• Main Author: Jiro Yoshida
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1983
• Subjects: Geography (General); G1-922; Antarctic; Yamato; Queen Maud Land; Belgica Mountains; Belgica, Mountains; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00008340; https://doaj.org/article/739b762fb420450a946d5a785abf6528

Three snowmobiles, type Yamaha ET250,were successfully used by the meteorite search party of the 20th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition from October 1979 to February 1980. The party covered 4300km for the meteorite search on the bare ice field around the Yamato Mountains and collected over 3000...