Location map

Joshua Scarrow, Dr Peter Almond and Errol Balks cooling down while waiting to fly from McMurdo Base to the Central Transantarcitic mountains camp (CTAM) about 700 km south of Scott Base

Cargo rolled out the back door of the Hercules aircraft (C114) as we are landing at CTAM

Air View of CTAM

Mess Tent at CTAM, very nice, caters for up to 80 people

Skido at CTAM with our field equipment packed and weighed ready for the helicopter flight to our field camp

A C114 arriving at CTAM

Ong Valley, patterned ground, looking for somwhere we could land a helecopter - not an easy task

Camp Site Ong Valley - dining al-fresco

Joshua Scarrow and Dr Peter Almond picking the easiest route to traverse with survival and soil sampling equipment

A warm day with tent doors open while cooking the evening meal, great chefs!

Getting a good look at a soil profile, Christmas day 2010

Discussing the soil profile before completing descrption and sampling

An Anhyorthel soil in Ong Valley

Christmas dinner, some treats for lunch and a short break from work, Christmas 2010

Caught out by snow before the profile is complete

Looking for a place big enough to pitch the tents, Dominion Range. Camping equipment 150m away in the background, where the helecopter put us down, is on very slippery ice so not a suitable place to camp

Tents pitched in gaps among the boulders, Dominion Range

Dominion Range, glacial terminal moraines pushing out over the adjacent lateral moranines

Strong linial patterns in the moraines

We undertook a series of soil profiles in a cross section across the lateral moraines extending 5 km from the edge of the polar plateau on the right to the foot of the Dominion range on the left

Abrupt land form changes at Otway Masif

Strong lienal features at Mt Achner, resembling a ploughed paddock (a very big plough)

Soil Profile at Mt Achner

Mt Achner morane site

A relatively "tropical" site at the foot of Mt Kiffen at only 200m above seal level