Windless Bight

To test our drilling equipment before deploying to Evans Piedmont Glacier, we conducted a test drill at Windless Bight (Fig.1). This is a convenient location, as it is close to Scott Base and also a future drill site of ANDRILL. The shakedown went well, none of the equipment suffered from the transport. The recovered 21m firn core will be the basis for a MSc study to quantify dust input into the McMurdo Sound and hereby has the potential to contribute directly to the ANDRILL science effort.

Fig. 1: Test drilling at Windless Bight