The Game-Changing Map

In 2019, the University of California-Irvine team of experts worldwide revealed a project called BedMachine Antarctica. It produced a highly-detailed map of the region’s ice sheet and the world beneath it using data collected by 19 research institutions going all the way back to 1967.

For years, the scientists studied almost a million line-miles of radar soundings to recreate Antarctica’s glacial regions’ topography from the surface down to the bed. The areas examined include the West Ragnhild ice stream and the Recovery, Thwaites, and Denman glaciers, to name but a few.