Dome Charlie
| Dome Charlie | ||
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 Dome C and Concordia from the air |
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| height | 3200 m | |
| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 125 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Dome Charlie (also known as Dome C ) is a 3200 m high ice dome in the otherwise structureless polar plateau of the East Antarctic Wilkesland .
The site was the scene of ice core drilling by various nations in the 1970s . As part of the supply flights undertaken by units of the United States Navy for the teams involved, a total of three Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashed here in January and November 1975 while attempting to take off. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the ice dome after the identifier for the letter C borrowed from the ICAO alphabet .
The Concordia scientific research station , operated by Italy and France and opened in 2005, is located on Dome Charlie .
Web links
Commons : Dome C - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Dome Charlie in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dome Charlie on geographic.org (English)