Brief but warm Antarctic summer

摘要

In 1842, James Clark Ross sailed past James Ross Island, on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, and named its high, glaciated volcanic peak, Mount Haddington1. In 2008, a team of scientists led by Robert Mulvaney of the British Antarctic Survey successfully drilled an ice core near the summit of Mount Haddington, reaching bedrock at 364 metres below the surface.