" SASTRUGGI."
CURLING WAVES OF ICE. BEAUTIFUL COLOURS. " Sastruggi " is a word that is frequently used by the returned explorers. It is the technical name for the furrows made in the snow surface by the wind. The appearance of the snow surface with much sastruggi has be^n likened to a great sea suddenly petrified while in mwtion. "ImagTne an expanse of ocean/ one of the explorers £ays> " here it is still as a lake, there in curling .vaves, here in rolling ridges, there in long swells. Convert thi* into enow, and you iiave some idea of the appearance of a snow plain. At anyrate, you hare the best description I can give you. The colours, too, ire varied, as in the sea. . Casual observers would say that the colours were green or blue, but those v."ho look well can see an incessant play of colour. Every small waveiet of snow reflects some delicate hue. The myriads of sparkling crystals appear to be •ejoicing in displaying their charms by constant and indescribably/ rapid changes of ,-olour. The driit of the sastruggi always tuns in the direction of the prevailing wind, so it is possible to steer by the sastruggi in jad w-eather, by going -with it or cutting it ;b any given angle, provided, of course, the direction of the prevailing wind is known."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7977, 5 April 1904, Page 4
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