Collection of Yamato meteorites in the 1979-1980 field season, Antarctica

• Main Author: Keizo Yanai
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1981
• Subjects: Antarctic; JARE IV Nunataks; Queen Maud Land; Yamato; Antarc*; Antarctica; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1197; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001197/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1197&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

An 8-man oversnow traverse party of the 20th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-20) visited the Yamato Mountains in the 1979-1980 field season to search for Antarctic meteorites. After 991 meteorite specimens were collected by previous searches in the bare ice field near the Yamato Mountai...