Medical Investigations on the Wintering Members of the 10th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition : I. Circulatory Condition of Finger Tip in Antarctica (Reports of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition)

• Main Author: Masamoto KIKKAWA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1972
• Subjects: Geography (General); G1-922; Antarctic; Syowa Station; Thumb; The Thumb; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00007657; https://doaj.org/article/87dce39ab5cc4944ae2db3f514f172b4

As a member of the 10th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, the author spent a year (1969-1970) at Syowa Station in Antarctica. Circulatory condition and function of the fingers of the wintering members were studied. (1) Twenty-nine persons were examined and the average of their ages was 30.9 ye...