Camp Century operated continuously between 1960 and 1964, and then during summers only until its closure in 1967. The station’s public mission was scientific research.

Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base long hidden under the ice in Greenland, thanks to a NASA research team's good luck.

Their readings helped map the vast buildings and hallways of Camp Century better than ever before. Now, after snow and ice have continued to accumulate, the base is some 100ft under the surface.

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In that view (map below), Camp Century’s solid structures appear like a blip in the deformed layers of ice. The April 2024 flights, however, had NASA’s ...

Camp Century's largest trench, known as "Main Street," was about 26 feet wide and stretched over 1,000 feet. The sprawling underground complex housed as many as 200 personnel underground.

Camp Century continued to operate as perhaps the Army’s most remote outpost until 1966 when it was closed down. Many of the tunnels soon collapsed, leaving behind few traces of the underground city.

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Award-winning director R.J. Cutler plans to direct a documentary on Camp Century, a secret U.S. military installation built in Greenland.

Camp Century, often referred to as the "City Under the Ice," was a Cold War-era U.S. military base constructed in 1959, and consisted of a network of underground tunnels dug into the ice.

Camp Century operated continuously between 1960 and 1964, and then during summers only until its closure in 1967. The station’s public mission was scientific research.