[3] At two sites in 2006 and 2007, ANDRILL team members drilled through ice, seawater, sediment and rock to a depth over more than 1,200 m (3,900 ft) and recovered a virtually continuous core record from the present to nearly 20 million years ago.

[2] In studying the cores, ANDRILL scientists from various disciplines are gathering detailed information about past periods of global warming and cooling.

This will provide evidence to confirm or reject a lot of interpretations that have been suggested and linked to Antarctica,"[5]The New Zealand online education programme, LEARNZ, conducted a virtual field trip to the Ross Sea drill site in November 2006.

[citation needed] Telephone conferences were held between students and ANDRILL scientists from the drill site and the Crary Laboratory at McMurdo station.

[11] Ann Curry, reporting for a series called "Ends of the Earth," had hoped to tape at the South Pole, was held up at McMurdo due to severe weather conditions.