In the context of modern scientific research, consider the following statements about IceCube', a particle detector located at South Pole, which was recently in the news : 1. It is the world's largest neutrino detector, encompassing a cubic kilometre of ice. 2. It is a powerful telescope to search for dark matter. 3. It is buried deep in the ice. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Gives the enormous areal scale of Antarctica (14 million km² and 90% of terrestrial ice), showing the continent contains vast amounts of ice volume.

A student could combine this large area with a plausible range of ice thickness (from basic external maps/ice-thickness data) to judge whether a 1 km³ instrumented volume is a tiny fraction and therefore physically plausible on the continent.

States Antarctica is covered by a single enormous ice sheet and describes coastal ice-shelf features, indicating substantial continuous ice suitable for in-ice detectors.

One could use the concept of a continuous ice sheet to infer that drilling/embedding instruments into a contiguous block of ice of order cubic kilometres is feasible given typical ice-sheet extents.

Reports very large iceberg/shelf fragment sizes (example: 11,000 km² iceberg), illustrating the scale at which Antarctic ice exists in contiguous volumes/areas.

Comparing an 11,000 km² area (from snippet) to the 1 km³ volume, a student could note that even modest ice thicknesses across small areas easily yield cubic-kilometre volumes, supporting plausibility.

Defines Antarctica geographically (land and ice-shelves south of 60°S) and notes it is designated a scientific reserve, implying major scientific installations are sited there.

Knowing the South Pole lies within this region, a student could combine the treaty's emphasis on science with maps to locate where a large ice-based detector might be placed on the Antarctic ice sheet.

Describes the ice-cap climate of interior Antarctica where temperatures remain below freezing and snow/ice accumulate into thick ice sheets.

Using the idea of thick, persistent interior ice, a student could infer that drilling or embedding instrumentation into multi-hundred-to-thousand-metre-thick ice (sufficient to create 1 km³ volumes) is consistent with Antarctic conditions.