Granite Harbor field camp

This is the view from the helo before we removed the camp. There had been a team of ANDRILL scientists here for the last month or so drilling test cores from below the sea ice to determine if this will be the next location they choose to drill sediment cores to determine climate patterns of the Antarctic continent and thereby model the future of the ice sheets. Pretty cool shit, I tell ya.

December 9th 2007
I was chosen as one of the four carpenters to go out to Granite Harbor to pull out the field camp that had been established there for ANDRILL (www.andrill.org). Granite Harbor (~100 miles north along the mainland coastline) that had been established for the ANDRILL team to do test drilling (of sea ice and sediment cores) for a few weeks after which we were called ... read more

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Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was not confirmed until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas sou... ... read more

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