摘要：The Japanese party consisting of five members participated in the last field survey season in the McMurdo Sound region from November 4th, 1976 to January 23th, 1977. The main international project of this season was the search for meteorites, named ANSME (Antarctic Search for Meteorites), U.S.-Japan joint program. Eleven specimens of meteorites have been found in the area of bare ice near Dry Valleys, South Victoria Land. The total weight of collected meteorites amounted to 460 kg, 4.5 times larger than that of Yamato meteorites which had been collected by Japanese parties around the Yamato Mountains, 350 km southwest of Syowa Station. The geological survey was carried out in the McMurdo Sound region for comparative study of geological structures with those in Lutzow-Holm Bay. Water samples were collected for chemical analyses in detail from Don Juan Pond in the Wright Valley and Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley. Field geochemical studies were also carried out at several places in the Dry Valleys and Ross Island. This program is a supplementary work to complete the geochemical researches of the Dry Valley Drilling Project. Micro-seismological observations with three-component seismographs were conducted for three weeks at Scott Base and four days at Vanda Station.
