What lies beneath? Antarctic voyage explores ocean hidden under ice for 100,000 YEARS
“But it’s a nerve-racking affair, too. Local weather and ice conditions might interfere any time.”
The remote area is hard to reach, and severe weather will most likely make it challenging to conduct research there.
“It’s thrilling to explore one of the last white spots on Earth,” said Dorschel, who is based at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany.
“But it is a nerve-racking affair, too. Local weather and ice conditions might interfere any time.”
The 3,600-square mile (5,800-square km) chunk of ice chunk of ice that calved from Larsen C in 2017 has since drifted some 200 kilometres northwards.