has anyone heard of this before?

retiredin2011

He wasn't talking about the british expedition that was trying to drill into a lake 3km below the surface?

That was the Antarctic.

alleycat`

retiredin2011 wrote: »

That was the Antarctic.

Appreciate that, and that this is a few days old now.
I just assumed the OP / Original engineer made a mistake.

It made more sense than drilling on what is, effectively, a giant iceberg that mostly melts every year (as opposed to a frozen over piece of land).

You could surely just carve that off instead of drilling into it?

I appreciate the arctic circle does contain "actual land" but the OP specified the Arctic which i associate with the bit on / near the pole.