Museum catalogue: Antarctic Collection
Sounding rod
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Accession no.: | Y: 52/45 | ||||||||||
Object name: | Sounding rod | ||||||||||
Title: | Sounding rod | ||||||||||
Description: | A 2-metre aluminium sounding rod used by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1949-52. It was used for measuring the accumulation of snow and as a triangulation point stake for measuring glacier movement. | ||||||||||
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Number of items: | 1 | ||||||||||
Full description: |
A 2m long hollow aluminium rod with a hole at one end and a protrusion at the other end. |
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