Talos Dome
Coordinates: 73 ° 0 ′ S , 158 ° 0 ′ E
The Talos Dome is a large ice dome southwest of the Usarp Mountains in Antarctica , which reaches an altitude of 2300 m. The ice dome covers the eastern edge of the Wilkes subglacial basin . The geographic object was mapped by the Scott Polar Research Institute , the National Science Foundation and Denmark's Technical University as part of an ice thickness measurement program that ran from 1967 to 1979 with the help of Radio Echo Sounding and was named after the giant Talos from Greek mythology, which Minos assisted in the defense of Crete .
Under the aegis of the Italian Antarctic Program, an ice core drilling is to be drilled on the Talos Dome, which will extract an ice core up to 250,000 years old for climate studies.
Web links
- Australian Antarctic Data Center datasheet , accessed March 24, 2018
- TALDICE ice core program , accessed March 24, 2018