Abstract:
This paper is a report of a Radio Echo Sounding, R.E.S. survey (recently renamed as Ground Penetrating Radar, G.P.R.), carried . out the Strandline Glacier (Terra Nova Bay) during the Italian Antarctic expedition 1988-89. The Strandline Glacier is a local dry-based glacier of particular interest because its fluctuations can be related to climatic variations. The R.E.S. profile allowed us to determine the thickness of the ice cover, the morphology of the bedrock and to distinguish geometrical trends and discontinuities in the ice cover. R.E.S. profiles will be repeated in the future to study variations of ice thickness and to evaluate mass balance.