Case file · Anomaly hotspot
The oldest ice: a million years under Little Dome C
In January 2025 the European Beyond EPICA project drilled 2,800 m to bedrock at Little Dome C and recovered ice at least 1.2 million years old, the longest continuous climate record yet taken from the ice.
2025 CE · -75.30, 122.45 · status: official
The account
Earlier cores at Vostok (420,000 years) and Dome C (800,000 years) traced the rhythm of ice ages; blue-ice areas in the Allan Hills have yielded fragments 2.7 million years old (2017) and older. These records rule out the claim, made by Hapgood and the Flem-Aths, that Antarctica was ice-free and inhabited only twelve thousand years ago.
Connections in the atlas
- 'When the Sky Fell': Atlantis under the Antarctic ice
- Hapgood's shifting crust and Einstein's foreword
- Lake Vostok, the lake under four kilometres of ice