Around The Base
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Under The Ice
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Underneath
the surface there were a few tunnels. These pictures are from the main
tunnel, which ran between the ACB &
ICB. This transported water & power to the
ICB. The sewage all ended up in a chamber off this tunnel - this organic
product actually heated the tunnel up to about -12C, the rest of the
tunnels were a constant -18C. This is the natural temperature. Only the
air near the surface was really cold, a few metres below or above the
surface the temperature generally rose. The other tunnels were one for the
Meteorological helium supply and one for the
SSB utilities (a smaller version of the main tunnel) |
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These
are the flubbers. They are used to store
AVTUR for the generators and only need filling a couple of times a
year. We pumped sledge loads of fuel from barrels on the surface into the
flubbers, which would then last a few months before the next refill.
Careful planning meant that we did not need to top them up in the dark |
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This
picture is looking down on the melt tank.
This was used to melt snow to provide our hot water. The heat came from
the generator exhaust, so when we filled the melt tank with snow there was
slightly less heat available to heat the building. |
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This
is the chamber above the melt tank. As you can see, the
accumulation of snow at the
surface has meant that a large shaft has been constructed to prevent the
melt tank from being crushed. |
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