sastrugi

• “Driving vehicles over the sastrugi is pretty bad for tracks, towbars and tank runners.”

  The Crossing of Antarctica

• “This area of the ice cap was covered with a layer of scalloped snow, what was called sastrugi, little curled waves of frozen snow formed by winds and erosion.”

  Ice Hunt

• “The windblown snow, called sastrugi, is exceptionally hard and jostles and tosses the snow machines with every little bump.”

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• “They survived altitude sickness, enormous blisters, countless frozen snowdrifts, known as sastrugi, and blinding whiteouts. ”

  Renegade Futurist

• “Meanwhile the sastrugi grew smaller and smaller, and finally they disappeared altogether, and the surface became quite flat.”

  The South Pole~ Through the Mountains

• “The going changed at once up here; the loose snow disappeared, and a few wind-waves (sastrugi) began to show themselves.”

  The South Pole~ Through the Mountains

• “The surface was now fine enough, smooth as a floor and without a sign of sastrugi.”

  The South Pole~ Through the Mountains

• “And then we were off: It was a hard pull to begin with, both for men and beasts, as the high sastrugi continued towards the south, and made it extremely difficult to advance.”

  The South Pole~ Through the Mountains

• “That it had been blowing here at some time, and violently too, was shown by the under-surface, which was composed of sastrugi as hard as iron.”

  The South Pole~ Through the Mountains

• “The nature of the surface was at first ideal; but as we came farther north and thus nearer to the sea, our progress was impeded by a great number of big snow-waves (sastrugi), which had probably been formed during the long period of bad weather that preceded our departure from Framheim.”

  The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey

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