A DRUMLIN – a word so evocative of the whale-shaped hills of Ireland that it is best spoken with an Irish brogue – has been spotted forming for the first time under Antarctic ice.
Drumlins are formations left behind by glaciers and are commonly found in North America, Ireland and Finland. It was thought that they formed slowly beneath the ice from sediments left behind by an ice river.
Now, however, Andy Smith of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and his colleagues have made a surprise discovery: they have seen a drumlin forming in less than a decade. They visited the Rutford…
