A tourist ship attempting to retrace famous explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1908 journey to Antarctica has returned to Southland without achieving its goal — like Mr Shackleton a century before.
The bosses of the 72m-long Spirit of Enderby ship this month aborted their Antarctic expedition 161km short of the coastline, having already spent two and a half days barging through about 322km of heavy ice in the Ross Sea.
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Tourist ship aborts Shackleton journey
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Re: Tourist ship aborts Shackleton journey
the last sentence is interesting:
Mr Russ had led 33 expeditions to the Ross Sea in the past 15 years and had never seen ice like it in January, he said.
Mr Russ had led 33 expeditions to the Ross Sea in the past 15 years and had never seen ice like it in January, he said.
