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RSV Nuyina is an icebreaking research and supply vessel intended to support Australian scientific activities and research bases in Antarctica. Capable of deploying a wide range of vehicles, including helicopters, landing barges and amphibious trucks to support the resupply operation, the new ship provides a modern platform for marine science research in both sea ice and open water with a large ...
This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels ... (1977–2012; retired from Antarctic service and used as a training ship) S. A. Agulhas II ...
In November 2019, a major defect in the ship's propeller forced L ' Astrolabe to cancel the resupply mission to France's Antarctic research stations. French expeditioners, cargo and supplies will instead be carried on the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis which was made available by the Australian Antarctic Division. [9]
The vessel is named after merchant mariner and ship builder Nathaniel Brown Palmer, credited by some historians as the first American to see Antarctica. [ 2 ] In February 2020, researchers aboard the vessel with the international Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research (THOR) project discovered Sif Island , located in Pine Island Bay of the Amundsen ...
The Kapitan Khlebnikov was completed in Finland in 1981 [3] as one of four Kapitan Sorokin-class icebreakers.She was refitted in 1990 as a tour ship [4] and was the first ship to circumnavigate Antarctica with passengers in 1996–97.
Devorsine made his Drake debut as a captain over 20 years ago, sailing an icebreaker full of scientists over to Antarctica for a research stint. “We had very, very rough seas — more than 20 ...