Living On Ice

Taken from Creation Magazine Vol 27 No. 1 Focus

Snow doesn't take long to pile up in Antarctica, which is why architects who relish a challenge are being sought by the British Antarctic Survey to design a new operational base.

The existing Halley base is the fifth built on the site since 1956 and is the most successful design to date because it can be jacked up on extendable legs to keep it above an accumulated snowfall of 1.5 m (5ft) per year.

'The first four bases were built on the surface and gradually got covered with snow and ultimately got so deep they became crushed by the weight of ice and had to be replaced', explained BAS director, Professor Chris Rapley. 'People living like troglodytes (cave-dwellers) and having to go down a long vertical shaft to get to their homes was not ideal.' BBC News. 26th Aug 2004.

'This reinforces the point about WW11 planes found in Greenland in 1988 buried under 75 m (250 ft) of solid ice - namely, that layers in ice cores taken from Arctic and Antarctic areas did not need vast timespans to accumulate.'

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