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map Mawson McMurdo measure melt stream methane mood
melt stream
Fred Elliott Melt stream, Masson Range, 1956.
18th. January 1956 Mawson Latitude 66s Longitude 62e
The northern end of the [Masson] range is a sturdy tower of rock, worn and squat like the towers of Notre Dame or the broken grandeur of Corfe Castle. There are pools of delicious water in the rock hollows, and as we descend, we cross streams running beneath the glacier. The ice sheet is a milky jade; the rock glows auburn, in the streams the light is a golden yellow. We loiter, and no birds sing yet it is very beautiful. Except in shadow it is quite hot.
Just here the ice seems to move much faster and during the night there are cracks and thuds from below us. In darkness we are surrounded by a muttering silence of thick sounds.
To the north is a great ice plain marked like a great arena by the swerving tracks of the following glacier...outlined at the foot of the exposed hills by a line of deep green melt streams.
Jack Ward, Mawson diary (1956)
