Earlier this month, Donald Trump Jr. visited Greenland, fueling speculation about what his father, now President Donald Trump, wanted to do with the world’s largest island. Around the same time, reports of new images of a U.S. military base hidden under feet of ice there came out.
Camp Century, located in northwest Greenland, was used as a military base for less than a decade in the 1960s and it was home to something called Project Iceworm, a Cold War project. Now, it’s all but a memory.
“On the ice sheet, the snow keeps falling and pushing stuff down towards the bottom. And so now when you go back to the site, that tunnel network set about… almost 100 feet,” said William Colgan, glacier and climate change researcher, currently in Copenhagen, Denmark as part of the Camp Century Climate Monitoring Program. He joined host Mike Rogers on “Something Offbeat” to help us learn more about this mysterious base.
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