These images show the traverse paths of the International Geophysical Year research in Antarctica (IGY, 1957 to 1959). The links for the individual traverses give more detailed information on the dates and organization that conducted the work.
Thanks to the BEDMAP consortium, the Antarctic Digital Database for the continent outline.
A map showing the tracks of the IGY traverses between 1957 and 1960. These pioneering expeditions laid the groundwork for much of the subsequent geophysical, glaciological, atmospheric, climate, and astronomical research of the past 50 years.
IGY (1957-59) traverses130WEST_585988WEST_5960 ANARE_5759 BELGE_5960 ELLSBYRD_5859 FILCHNER_5758 MARIEBYRD_5960 NBS_5152 RIS_5760 SAE_5658 SAE_5859 SAE_5960 TAE_5758 VLT1_5859 VLT2_5960 WESTANT_5759 Early 60s traversesELLSWORTH_6061MCMPOLE_6061 PENINSULA_6162 PENSACOLA_6566 ROOSEVELT_6263 SAE_6061 SAE_6364 SOUTHPOLE_6263 SPQMLT_6468 WALGREEN_6061 WILKES_6163 WISCONSIN_6364 |
Where we started...A surface elevation map of Antarctica, ca. 1964, (from Bentley, C. R. 1964. The Structure of Antarctica and its Ice Cover, In Hugh Odishaw, ed., Research in Geophysics, v. 2, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, pp. 335-390).
And a bed map (ibid.)
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A map showing the main research tracklines flown and driven in Antarctica over the past 50 years. This work has resulted in detailed maps of ice thickness, surface elevation, bed topography, gravity, magnetics, snow fall rates, temperature, etc. However, as can plainly be seen there are vast portions of the continent that have never been studied.
