The group travelled over 300 miles to reach the future site of Taishan Station, which is being built about 310 miles inland and will allow enhanced studies into climate change and other fields.
The site reportedly “will be open to research by any country,” according to Qu Tanzhou, director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration. And according to the ScienceInsider blog, even American researchers are looking forward to using it.
Robin Bell, a glaciologist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, told the site she hoped to use Taishan as a launch pad for probing the geological history of the Grove Mountains and the glaciology of the Amery Ice Shelf.