Test Drilling at Windless Bight

To test our drilling equipment before deploying to Whitehall Glacier, we conducted a test drill at Windless Bight (Fig.2). This is a convenient location, as it is close to Scott Base and in the vicinity to the ANDRILL drill. The shakedown went well, none of the equipment suffered from the transport. The recovered 20m firn core will contribute to a PhD thesis quantifying dust input into the McMurdo Sound and hereby contributing to the ANDRILL science effort.

Fig. 2: Drilling at Windless Bight