{"id":29,"date":"2008-01-18T15:16:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T15:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/2008\/01\/18\/29\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T18:08:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T18:08:49","slug":"29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Lorentzenpiggen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/20080118-lorentzenpiggen-sq.jpg\" title=\"Lorentzenpiggen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/20080118-lorentzenpiggen-sq.jpg\" alt=\"Lorentzenpiggen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"text-align: left\">Lorentzenpiggen (Lorentz&#8217; Peak) is our nearest significant nunatak neighbour, which a distinctive shape that is easily recognised from afar.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The journey crosses several crevassed areas, but is worthwhile both for the scientific value and for scenic beauty.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the site of geological and biological research, and is home to lichen and small mites.\u00c2\u00a0 We made the trip as part of a geodesic experiment to establish both a radar reflector used for satellite altimetry, and a differential GPS marker plate.\u00c2\u00a0 DGPS achieves sub-centimeter accuracy, and the network of marker stations\u00c2\u00a0being placed on our neighbouring mountains will allow scientists to monitor the geographic\u00c2\u00a0stability of the area, as well as the effect that the massive glacial forces have on the rock itself.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorentzenpiggen (Lorentz&#8217; Peak) is our nearest significant nunatak neighbour, which a distinctive shape that is easily recognised from afar.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The journey crosses several crevassed areas, but is worthwhile both for the scientific value and for scenic beauty.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the site of geological and biological research, and is home to lichen and small mites.\u00c2\u00a0 We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}