Call number:
AWI P3-89-0313
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
140 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
third edition
ISBN:
0642117837
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. GOING OUT?
requirements to be met, minimum equipment, field trips
2. STATIONS AND BASES
Macquarie Island, Commonwealth Bay, Casey, Edgeworth David, Davis, Law, Mawson, Heard Island
3. TRAVEL IN ANTARCTICA
blizzards, whiteout, revasses, sea ice hazards and emergency
4. LIGHT-WEIGHT TRAVEL IN ANTARCTICA
walking, skiing, manhauling, dog sledging
5. MOTORISED TOBOGGANS
operation, sledges
6. HEAVY VEHICLE TRAVEL IN ANTARCTICA
planning, train methods, navigating, extracting crevassed vehicles, Hagglunds on sea ice
7. AIRCRAFT TRAVEL
safety, loading, flying, ground-to-air signals, marshalling, forced landings
8. SMALL BOAT TRAVEL
safety, minimum equipment, emergency action
9. CLOTHING AND FIELD EQUIPMENT
wearing clothing properly, knot tying, slings, harnesses, karabiners, jumars, anchors, ice axes, crampons, packs, sleeping gear
10. SNOW AND ICE TECHNIQUES
step-cutting, descending, self-arresting, roping up for climbing, belays, abseiling, roping up for glacier travel, extraction from crevasses, rescue stretcher use
10. SHELTER
tent erection, Apple huts, primus, tilley lamp, emergency shelters, bivouac for a lone person
12. FIELD RATIONS
packs, cooking, emergency food
13. NAVIGATION
maps, magnetic compass, magnetic variation, bearings, locating south at night, locating north, vehicle compass, trail marking
14. RADIO COMMUNICATIONS
VHF channels, VHF repeater, VHF hand-helds and repairs, vehicle VHF, HF frequencies, HF radios, HF antennae, EPIRBs, PIRBs, Radio Box, Selcal, callsigns, schedules, Morse, to ships and aircraft, distress and urgency calls
15. EMERGENCY PROCEDURES AND SEARCH AND RESCUE
priorities, lost individual, lost party, searchmasters, SAR phases, search techniques, location by dipole aerial, radio failure on Macquarie Island
16. ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
Antarctic Treaty and acts, SPAs, SSSis, offences, Heard and McDonald Islands, Macquarie Island, Southern Ocean
APPENDIX I. Field camp equipment list
APPENDIX II. Distances, weights and volumes
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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