I'm going to Oh, Hello, welcome to the Kryptonaut podcast. I'm Mark Stors and with me as always is.

Rob Morphe. We have a very special guest this episode straight out of quarantine directly into social isolation.

Mr. Nikolau's Cox, how are you doing buddy?

I'm doing good guys, better but very glad to talk to you now.

Excellent.

Thank you so much for coming on and taking the time to talk with me and Rob.

Actually, Nikola's got a hold of me on our Patreon. He recently came back from a trip he's going to be telling us about. But yeah, real quick,

Nickolouse, why don't you just give us a little bit of info about yourself, some background, where you've been, and what you got going on now.

Okay, yeah, so I, until coronavirus made our lives awful,

I was an archaeologist with the University of Cambridge.

I used to study there, and then I started working for their archaeology unit

mainly doing research in and around Britain

Archaeological research into Roman ruins and things like that. But through sort of I got on to this

through a family friend but I realized that there were these second World War

ruins out in the Solomon Islands on this

island called Columb Bangara. There are these Japanese wartime tunnels and dugouts

that no one had ever been to or seen since the Japanese evacuated the island in

1943 and conflict archaeology.

That's like modern archaeology done

into like modern or comparatively modern conflicts is actually a sort of burgeoning part of the field and you know a lot

people do research into the Second World War and the First World War and but no one had ever gone out here

I mean the Solomon Islands are a pretty

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