An online diary of my trip to Halley Bay, Antarctica working for the British Antarctic Survey. Contains images, information and personal thoughts about living and working in the Antarctic.

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Berkner Island Flight

Photos from my co-pilot flight to the Berkner Island drilling project in January 2005.

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This is the drilling pit at Berkner. The large silver device in the middle is the drill, which has now reached bedrock at around 900 metres below the surface. On the bench on the right and in the far wall you can see an example of one of the cores they have extracted.