ANTARCTIC METEORITE LOCATION AND MAPPING PROJECT (AMLAMP)
EXPLANATORY TEXT

During the 1991-1992 field season, the small icefields around Stewart Hills (84°12'S 086°00'W) were investigated during aircraft-based reconnaissance. The Stewart Hills are small, isolated nunataks located approximately 80 kilometers northeast of the Thiel Mountains and are only one of two bedrock exposures on the 1:250000 scale U.S.G.S. Stewart Hills quadrangle (STE39-Figure 1 - 39 KB JPEG).

Searches across the bare ice areas yielded no meteorites. However, one specimen, STE 91800, was discovered lying in an ice-cored moraine at the base of a talus slope at the NE face of the nunatak. STE39-Figure 2 (34 KB JPEG) is an oblique aerial photo of the Stewart Hills indicating the location of this specimen.

Acknowledgments; John Schutt and Peter Wasilewski conducted the field work in the 1991-1992 season. The support of the Twin Otter aircraft crew, J.C. Armstrong, Henry Perk, and Clarke Boutin, of Kenn Borek Air, Ltd. is much appreciated.

Listing of the meteorite from the Stewart Hills - 1991 collection.

METEORITE                     WEIGHT
  NAME       CLASSIFICATION    (g)  NEWSLETTER
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STE 91800    L6 CHONDRITE     140.3    16(1)

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