[SunkenCiv]

The article sez 1.5 kilometers, which is a bit less (110 yards) less than a mile, into the ice. There is at least one active volcano in Antarctica, on land, and I believe at least one under the submarine ice.

Among the first fossils returned from Antarctica were of beech trees, between 2 and 3 million years old, from about 200 miles away from the Pole. This means the climate got no worse than ordinary winters, not the permafrozen, ice covered wasteland seen today.

See the "Eltanin Impact Crater" topic, which is just a few minutes younger than this one, regarding an impact near Antarctica a bit more than 2 million years ago. The Eltanin impact was identified during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) which began I think in 1955, but didn't end until the 1960s sometime. It was a long year. ;')

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The Eltanin Impact Crater
Geological Society of America ^ | October 27-30, 2002
Christy A. Glatz, Dallas H. Abbott, and Alice A. Nunes
Posted on 10/17/2004 9:46:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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