Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi Univeristy, 1677-1 Yoshida, Yamaguchi 753-8512
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 8050, Ikarashi 2no-cho, Nishi-ku, Niigata 950-2181
Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University, 19-1, 8-choume, Jonan-ku Nanakuma, Fukuoka 814- 0180
Nagoya University Museum, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601
Interdisciplinary Faculty of Science and Engineering, Shimane University, 1060 Nishi-kawatsu-cho, Matsue 690-8504
Futagoyama, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 064-0946
The Sør Rondane Mountains field party, part of the summer party of the 50th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-50), consisted of five geologists and one field assistant, and conducted geological fieldwork in the western Sr Rondane Mountains, Eastern Dronning Maud Land, as part of a research project of the National Institute of Polar Research (#P-5-1). The field party accessed the mountains using the Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN) from Cape Town to a runway close to the Belgian base, via the Novolazarevskaya runway. The field party made three campsites (Base Camp, Camp 1, and Camp 3) and stayed on the snowfield for 75 days. Here, we report the detailed operation plans and present a summary of the fieldwork, including information on logistics and weather reports for the western Sør Rondane Mountains.