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In the summer of 1959, a group of American soldiers began carving trenches in the Greenland ice sheet. Those trenches would become the snow-covered tunnels of Camp Century, a secret Arctic research base powered by a nuclear reactor.
It was located about 150 miles inland from Thule, now Pituffik, a large American military base set up in north-western Greenland after a military agreement with Denmark during world war two.
Camp Century operated for six years, during which time the scientists based there managed to drill a mile down to collect a unique set of ice cores. But by 1966, Camp Century had been abandoned, deemed too expensive and difficult to maintain.
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It was located about 150 miles inland from Thule, now Pituffik, a large American military base set up in north-western Greenland after a military agreement with Denmark during world war two.
Camp Century operated for six years, during which time the scientists based there managed to drill a mile down to collect a unique set of ice cores. But by 1966, Camp Century had been abandoned, deemed too expensive and difficult to maintain.
What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importance
Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island’s ice sheet.
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The Danish military has been heavy with updates on operations in the suddenly controversial territory of Greenland, and notably has done more in the past month to boost the defense of the massive land mass than it has in the past 80 years.
Meanwhile, in Greenland…
The Danish military has been heavy with updates on operations in the suddenly controversial territory of Greenland, and notably has done more in the past month to boost the defense of the massive l…
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