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Australasian Antarctic Expedition

When the privately-funded Australasian Antarctic Expedition aboard the polar vessel Akademik Shokalskiy became trapped in fast ice over Christmas 2013, it triggered a $2-million international rescue operation.

From Insight, 9 March 2014

Photo: Kaylene Lawson

The view from Shokalskiy, beset east of Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. Photo B and J Tucker

Photo: Kaylene Lawson

Photo: Kaylene Lawson

Waiting game. Photo: Kaylene Lawson

Akademik Shokalskiy beset near the Mertz Glacier. Photo: B and J Tucker

Chinese rescue helicopter. Photo: Kaylene Lawson

Loading the helicopter. Photo: B and J Tucker

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