A very Crary Christmas

It’s a very Crary Christmas for our on-ice team in Antarctica!

After several weeks of weather delays preventing them getting out to our deep-field camp at Crary Ice Rise, on Christmas Eve the team received the best possible present – a Basler flight to Crary!

With the majority of our team now on site, it’s full steam ahead towards drilling for sediment core from deep beneath 500m of ice.

 

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Hot water drilling gets underway!

Hot water drilling gets underway!

22 December 2025

The team have begun to melt a hole through the ice to make our well. 

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Installing the cellar

Installing the cellar

21 December 2025

The team at Crary Ice Rise have lowered the ‘cellar’ into a 3m pit dug down into the ice.

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