Design, transport, construction, and operation of the summer base Kohnen for ice-core drilling in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.

• Main Authors: Drücker, Cord, Wilhelms, Frank, Oerter, Hans, Frenzel, Andreas, Gernandt, Hartwig, Miller, Heinrich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue Vol 56, Ed. by Nobuhiko Azuma and Yoshiyuki Fujii. 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Dronning Maud Land; Kohnen; Neumayer; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; ice core; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/4046/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/4046/1/Dru2000a.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.14624; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.14624.d001

During the austral summer seasons 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 the summer base"Kohnen" was built as a platform for the EPICA deep ice core drilling in DronningMaud Land, Antarctica. The design is based on prefabricated container units. Thebase was erected within two summer seasons. Overland tra...