A large New Zealand-led team of researchers, engineers and drillers is hopefully just weeks away from starting drilling on an ambitious project to retrieve a deep sediment core from a remote area of Antarctica.
Drilling deep into a remote part of Antarctica looking for clues to how fast the ice will melt
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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!
Ross Shelf Reports
200 metres of sediment core!
06 January 2026
Third time’s a charm - we have successfully drilled 200 metres of sediment core from beneath the ice sheet at Crary Ice Rise!