The abandoned ice sheet base at Camp Century, Greenland, in a warming climate

• Main Authors: Colgan, William, Machguth, Horst, MacFerrin, Mike, Colgan, Jeff D, van As, Dirk, MacGregor, Joseph A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2016
• Subjects: Institute of Geography; 910 Geography & travel; Eternity; Greenland; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/126150/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/126150/1/Colgan_GRL_2016.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-126150; https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069688

In 1959 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built Camp Century beneath the surface of the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet. There they studied the feasibility of deploying ballistic missiles within the ice sheet. The base and its wastes were abandoned with minimal decommissioning in 1967, under the ass...