Antarctica Ahoy!

Around Scott Base

Expedition Begins

Exploration Area

Exploration Routes

Plateau Loop map

Polar Plateau

Icy Panorama

East Quartzite Range

West Quartzite Range

Upper Glacier

Glacier Route

Middle Glacier

Lower Glacier

Final Stretch

Destination

Conclusion

Diary: Introduction

Diary: Preparation

Diary: Polar Plateau

Diary: Quartzite Xmas

Diary: Into the Glacier

Diary: Home Run

Appendix: Polar Life

Appendix: Logistics

Appendix: Mapping

Thanks

Antarctica with the exploration area marked.

Tararua Antarctic Expedition, 1962-63

Icy Panorama

Nunataks are rock islands in the polar plateau ice. Nunataks forming the West Quartzite Range
dot the plateau 16 km west of survey station H2.

Nearby, "streaming" ice flow past a small nunatak
indicates a slope northwards, towards the Rennick Glacier névé.

Lloyd Icefall tumbles into the Rennick Glacier Névé.

View north from H2 across the Lloyd Icefall, which descends to the Rennick névé.

Rennick Glacier embarks for the Antarctic Ocean. View northeast from H2.

The Rennick Glacier flows north
to the Oates Coast of Antarctica,
which lies south of Tasmania.

East Quartzite Range