So the million year ice core project
is Australia's response to this really grand challenge in ice core
and climate research. It aims to recover us Antarctica's longest continuous ice core.
Around a million years ago we saw a change in the periodicity of ice ages we used to
see one ice age occur every 41 000 years around a million years ago this changed to one ice age
every hundred thousand years. Currently we have no understanding of why this occurred.
This million year ice core will actually give us the cold hard
data that enables us to test that theory.
This is the the last great adventure on earth
a 1300 kilometre expedition and so this season will deliver the last of the tractors
the vans and accommodation all of which have been created here in Hobart.