EXPLORE SBX CARS<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Supercar auctions starting soon powered by Supercar Blondie\u00a0<\/p>\n The abandoned US military base buried 100 feet under the ice in Greenland<\/p>\n NASA scientist Chad Greene had taken some radar images of the ice during his flight over Greenland in April 2024.<\/p>\n Upon closer examination, Camp Century was discovered buried 100 feet deep within the ice sheet.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century,\u201d fellow NASA scientist Alex Gardner told Popular Mechanics.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t know what it was at first.\u201d<\/p>\n So what is the backstory behind Camp Century?<\/p>\n It was built between June 1959 and October 1960 by the US Army Corps of Engineers and was made up of 21 underground tunnels.<\/p>\n As you can imagine, building in an underground base in a notoriously cold and inhospitable territory wasn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n The base was built using 6,000 tons of material, transported on bobsleds that would max out at two miles per hour.<\/p>\n Army engineers dug trenches in the snow, and then wooden buildings and steel roofs made up the structure of Camp Century.<\/p>\n The plan was for the base to store ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n An extra 52,000 square miles of tunnels were planned for this purpose, which would be enough to fit in 600 missiles.<\/p>\n In addition to this, 60 launch centers would have been built, with 11,000 soldiers stationed there full-time to man things.<\/p>\n This all sounds like a big operation, right?<\/p>\n Well, it was \u2013 and that\u2019s pretty much the reason this base has been abandoned for the last few decades.<\/p>\n Why was this base abandoned?<\/p>\n Many reasons could be put forth for why this plan would be deserted, whether it\u2019s due to cost, lack of manpower, or military resources.<\/p>\n But it boils down to one thing \u2013 this military base simply wasn\u2019t practical.<\/p>\n Greenland is a remote location, and to take on a project of this scale would be extremely costly.<\/p>\n So in 1967, Camp Century was abandoned.<\/p>\n It\u2019s remarkable that the base is still there in some form, however.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve seen a lot of abandoned places before, and it\u2019s always really cool to see. <\/p>\n There\u2019s the deserted airport in London that was once the world\u2019s biggest<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"NASA](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abandoned-base-featured-image-1024x640.webp.webp\")
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