everyone began to keep busy

23, temporary notice, to expedition in an ice shelf for positioning Murray, suddenly, the whole survey assignments are starting to busy ocean team, making chemical Marine pour vacate reagent and the bottle container canister, doing physics ocean start debugging instrument preparation of equipment, do biological ocean busy help pierced acquisition nets, at night, sail to designated stance.

Open of the hoist open winches, pack instrument loading instrument, as if half the arctic expedition returned to the warm scene, although it was cold, can use water ice to describe, but the explorers enthusiasm is better than all, nearly six hours of work processes no one to complain call tired, are for the scientific research work unceasingly diligently, know last sample after handling, when the sun has rises yonder, Antarctic morning flowery and beautiful.

Jan 24 - January 25
On the moment Evans m shelf, can experience to that man's first to walk on the moon, pleasure and excitement. In the process of polar ice observation, in addition to the players outside, few someone would come to this piece of white desert, in blue sea, huge shelf spans in front of you, stretching a few tens of kilometers unending legions, how spectacular!

Far look and close intimate contact is vastly different feeling, when seen from afar shelf is not high, but when the helicopter in a steep white cliff edge flight, hundreds of meters height let the plane, the plane already feeling dwarfed by slowly, first landing in shelf foot walks and have no imagination of so soft, eyes is thick ice and ice at first glance no end in sight.

Man's small and first foot on this shelf of joy at the same time, the plane flew into my mind after all that seems so quiet, this piece of pure white world since shelf after formed may tens of thousands of years or even hundreds of thousands of years since no human treading, today, here on the first step, quite some pride, while here have can feel inland grim, though the sun is shining brightly, but the wind to the face can still feel some cold, this is the sea, to inland, no Marine huge heat capacity as a guarantee, the temperature drop dramatically and feet are million years after the glacier.