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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Media releases
Record-breaking sediment core provides unprecedented evidence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat

Record-breaking sediment core provides unprecedented evidence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat

18 February 2026

An international team has drilled the longest-ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back millions of years.

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Ross Shelf Reports
Drilling wraps up at Crary Ice Rise

Drilling wraps up at Crary Ice Rise

09 January 2026

We’ve completed drilling at Crary Ice Rise with a whopping 228 metres of sediment core, exceeding our target of 200 metres!

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