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The Drilling Site

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Figure 1. Top left panel: map of Antarctica showing the Dome C region (black rectangle). Top right panel: map of the Dome C region showing the ice core drilling area at Little Dome C (LDC) in the rectangle. Bottom panel: detailed map of the bedrock topography in the LDC area based on the new BE-OI results. LDC is located 40 km southwest of Concordia Station. The vertical white arrow indicates the most promising potential drilling site, as identified during the 2017-18 survey. Subglacial lake extent (dark blue) was inferred by high bed reflectivity and a flat radar reflection, and has been interpolated to give an impression of the extent and depth of lakes below the ice surface.

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