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Ross Shelf Reports
We have a breakthrough!
26 December 2025
Our hot water drillers have successfully melted a hole through the ice at Crary Ice Rise (CIR) right down 523 metres to the bedrock below! Not an easy task!
Ross Shelf Reports
A very Crary Christmas
25 December 2025
After weeks of weather delays preventing them getting out to our camp at Crary Ice Rise, on Christmas Eve the team received the best possible present - a Basler flight!
Ross Shelf Reports
Hot water drilling gets underway!
22 December 2025
The team have begun to melt a hole through the ice to make our well.
Ross Shelf Reports
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.
Ross Shelf Reports
Melting snow for hot water drilling
17 December 2025
Since arriving at Crary Ice Rise (CIR) our drill team have made great progress setting up the hot water drilling system inside the big orange drill tent, and assembling the…
Ross Shelf Reports
Drillers fly to Crary Ice Rise
12 December 2025
Following some challenges with the weather, our hot water drillers and most of our AIDD (Antarctic Intermediate Depth Drill) team have arrived at our deep-field scientific drilling site at Crary…
Ross Shelf Reports
SWAIS2C team at Scott Base
05 December 2025
Our drillers and first of the on-ice science team have arrived at Scott Base, and are keeping busy while they wait for suitable weather to fly to Crary Ice Rise.
Ross Shelf Reports
SWAIS2C’s third season is underway
24 November 2025
It’s all go for our 2025/26 season! Antarctica New Zealand's traverse arrived at Crary Ice Rise on 21 November, after a 13-day, 1100km journey across the Ross Ice Shelf.
Ross Shelf Reports
Al the Antarctic deep-field camp chef
17 September 2025
There are many home comforts that our on-ice team had to learn to do without, but delicious meals was not one!
Ross Shelf Reports
Searching for ice sheet insights in sedimentary ancient DNA
28 May 2025
Traces of DNA left behind in seafloor sediment by past marine communities at KIS3 could reveal important information about the environmental conditions at the time they were alive.