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Mount Howe
Mount Howe (87°22'S 149°30' W) is located some 300 kilometers from the South Pole, making it the southernmost exposed bedrock on the Antarctic continent. A bare ice area of approximately 30 square kilometers, is situated along the western side of the nunatak and downwind of an extensive ice-cored moraine. Rocks blown out on to the ice by the ever present katabatic winds litter much of the ice surface. Ice is moving northward down the Scott Glacier between Mount Howe and D'Angelo Bluff, 20 kilometers to the west. The area is covered by the 1:250000 scale U.S.G.S. D'Angelo Bluff quadrangle (HOW32-Figure 1- 52 KB JPEG).
During the 1988-1989 field season a group led by Charles Swithinbank was at Mount Howe evaluating the icefield as a possible blue ice runway for large, wheeled aircraft. One of the members found HOW 88403 during the survey. A two person ANSMET search team was sent to see if additional specimens could be found. Several days were spent in a detailed evaluation of the site. Only three additional meteorites were discovered (Cassidy, 1989). HOW32-Figure 2 (33 KB JPEG) is an enlarged portion of the D'Angelo Bluff quadrangle indicating the approximate locations of the Mount Howe meteorite specimens.
Acknowledgments; We thank Charles Swithinbank and members of the ice runway survey group for contributing the specimen and providing logistics for the ANSMET reconnaissance team. Ralph Harvey and John Schutt conducted the search for other meteorites.
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