The Australian 2024-2025 Team, with the support of a tractor-traverse convoy, have set up their drilling camp at Dome C North, about 1200 km from Casey Station (WAP AUS-Ø2).
Australia’s Million Year Ice Core project at Dome C North in Antarctica (WAP AUS-NEW) is a recent set Aussie drilling site.
In December 2024, a 642-tonne convoy set out from Casey Station to make the overland traverse. They arrived at Dome C North, the new drilling site, 18 days later on Christmas Eve, and were subsequently treated to a Christmas party hosted by the French and Italians at nearby Concordia station (WAP MNB-Ø3).
MYIC stands for Million Year Ice Core Antarctica. 
The scientific and drilling team flew into Concordia on New Year’s Eve. In the fortnight following, they erected a permanent drill shelter, a 27-metre-long structure that will stand for the next five years, housing a drill more than 8 meters long and withstanding temperatures as low as -80C.
Dome C North (DCN) at 75°02’32” South, 123°37’52” East, is located nearly 50 km to the Multinational Concordia Station (WAP MNB-Ø3) and only 9 kilometers away the Little Dome C-Beyond Epica (LDC) WAP MNB-15.
Over the next 4-5 drilling seasons, they’ll strive to reach ice 3000 meter’s down, containing the most detailed continuous record of how the Earth’s atmospheric composition and climate have changed over centuries.
Danilo IAØ/IZ1KHY had the chance to visit the Australia’s “Dome C North Camp”, 50 Km from Concordia … but no radio…. just a courtesy visit after the invitation of the DCN manager who had in turn been invited by Danilo to LDC for a pizza!
4-5 drilling seasons, will mean 4-5 years, the hope is that one Radio operator could be active from there one year or another!
Read more about MYIC-DCN, Dome C North at: https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/australias-search-for-antarcticas-oldest-ice/
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At the light of the evidence shown, MYIC-DCN, Dome C North, at 75°02’32” South, 123°37’52” East, on the East Antarctic Plateau, will enter on WAP WADA Directory as WAP AUS-NEW.
TNX Danilo IZ1KHY & Credit to Australia Antarctica gov.