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J. D. Ives
Figure 1. Map produced by Matthew Roberts (Icelandic Meteorological Office) showing the site of the dis-
covery on Skaftafellsjökull and a projected estimation of the locality of Ian and Tony’s final camp. The map
projection is Lambert Conformal Conic, referenced to the ISN93 datum. Contours are represented in 10 m in-
tervals. – Kort Matthew Roberts af staðsetningu síðustu tjaldbúða við Miðfellstind, áætlaðri gönguleið Ian og
Tony (rauð brotin lína) ásamt fundarstað búnaðar þeirra á Skaftafellsjökli. Hæðarlínur eru með 10 m millibili.
Ian and Tony set-out for Öræfajökull on 6 August
leaving Jim Exley and Chris Leahy to maintain rou-
tine meteorological and glaciological observations at
the Ice Camp. Ian and Tony were never seen again,
despite an extensive ground and air search.
Ragnar Stefánsson maintained throughout his life
that the remains of Ian and Tony would be returned
to me because “the glacier always gives up what it
takes“.
JULY 2006 DISCOVERY
On Thursday 6 July, 2006, Eyjólfur Magnússon and
Alexander H. Jarosch, scientists with the Institute of
Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, found many
items of broken and weathered equipment high on
the surface of Skaftafellsjökull. These items were
spread out over a small area on the eastern side of
the glacier’s medial moraine, about 5.5 km above the
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