The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.

Camp Century was a secret U.S. military base built inside the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1959 at the height of the Cold War. In official terms, the project was for Arctic research and the ...

A restricted military base from the Cold War era, Camp Century was created almost 100ft underneath a glacier in Greenland. The location of Camp Century as seen from the Gulfstream III flown by ...

The idea behind Camp Century was to serve as a cover for Project Iceworm, a plan to stockpile nuclear missiles in the ice, which were capable of hitting the former Soviet Union. The camp ...

Camp Century was an Arctic United States military scientific research base in Greenland. situated east of Pituffik Space Base. When built, Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for ...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town ...

In fact, Camp Century, as Weiss’ icy home was known, formed part of a top-secret attempt by the US to hide launch sites for missiles in the Arctic, which the military viewed as a strategic ...

A restricted military base from the Cold War era, Camp Century was created almost 30 metres underneath a glacier in Greenland. Nicknamed the “City Under the Ice,” Camp Century was a marvel of ...

According to the declassified documents a military base from the Cold War era, named Camp Century, was created beneath a glacier in Greenland and was dubbed "City Under the Ice" Construction of a ...