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A lost US military base under Greenland's ice sheet
In the summer of 1959, a group of American soldiers began carving trenches in the Greenland ice sheet. Those trenches would become the snow covered tunnels of Camp Century, a secret Arctic research base powered by a nuclear reactor.
Camp Century operated for six years, during which time the scientists based there managed to drilling a mile down to collect a unique set of ice cores. But by 1966, it had been abandoned, deemed too expensive and difficult to maintain.
Today, Donald Trump’s territorial ambitions for Greenland continue to cause concern and confusion in Europe, particularly for…
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