NASA scientists Chad Greene and Alex Gardner rediscovered Camp Century, a Cold War-era US base buried under 100ft of ice in Greenland, 58 years after it was abandoned. The base, built in 1959 as a secret missile launch site, was left to be lost under ice as the US abandoned the project.
NASA scientists have rediscovered a long-lost 'city' buried under 100ft of ice, 58 years after it was abandoned as a US base during the Cold War . Camp Century , built in 1959 in northwest Greenland , was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the project and left the camp - which could have expanded to 33 bases - to be slowly lost to the elements.
Officially, Camp Century was created to test sub-ice construction techniques, but the real plan was top secret - creating a hidden launch site in case of conflict with the Soviets. It was abandoned in 1966, but what the US left behind - an estimated 200,000 litres of diesel oil and sewage - has caused a row over the clean-up. Greenland has previously called on Denmark - which owns the land - to take responsibility, arguing the Danes agreed to the deal in the first place.
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