Location

Talos Dome is a large ice dome rising to 2300 m to the southwest of the Usarp Mountains. The feature was delineated by the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)-National Science Foundation (NSF)-Technical University of Denmark (TUD) airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79, and was named after Talos of Greek mythology, who assisted Minos in the defense of Crete.
Talos Dome was chosen as drilling site for the TALos Dome Ice CorE (TALDICE, http://www.taldice.org) ice core drilling project in 2004-2008.

(From https://geonames.usgs.gov)

Data sheet

Model: Vaisala Milos 500
Mast: 3 m

• Wind Speed and Direction
• Temperature and Relative Humidity
• Atmospheric Pressure
• Solar Radiation
• Snow depth

• 1 FLASH 4 MB

• 2 batteries. Tot 300 Ah
• 1 solar panel
• Windturbine

• Iridium

Curiosities ...

Max Wind speed: 121.0 knots (224.1 Km/h) at 3 January 2005

Minimum temperature: -65.8 °C at 29 June 2006

Maximum temperature: -2.3 °C at 21 January 2010