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Mr Chris Gannon, a D.S.I.R. technician, with a 2m custom-built chainsaw he used to cut blocks of ice from the Mt Erebus glacier ice tongue in Antarctica. At rear is Mr Michael Robinson, another D.S.I.R. technician. A U-shaped trench was cut through the 1.7m of ice to the sea. The tongue of ice surrounded by the trench was then pressured until it broke off in a series of experiments to determine the fatigue properties of ice in November.

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Press, 13 December 1989, Page 5

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Mr Chris Gannon, a D.S.I.R. technician, with a 2m custom-built chainsaw he used to cut blocks of ice from the Mt Erebus glacier ice tongue in Antarctica. At rear is Mr Michael Robinson, another D.S.I.R. technician. A U-shaped trench was cut through the 1.7m of ice to the sea. The tongue of ice surrounded by the trench was then pressured until it broke off in a series of experiments to determine the fatigue properties of ice in November. Press, 13 December 1989, Page 5

Mr Chris Gannon, a D.S.I.R. technician, with a 2m custom-built chainsaw he used to cut blocks of ice from the Mt Erebus glacier ice tongue in Antarctica. At rear is Mr Michael Robinson, another D.S.I.R. technician. A U-shaped trench was cut through the 1.7m of ice to the sea. The tongue of ice surrounded by the trench was then pressured until it broke off in a series of experiments to determine the fatigue properties of ice in November. Press, 13 December 1989, Page 5