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06/01/2014 GMT

The Return To Mawson's Antarctica - Part Four

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The mission to rescue the Australian Antarctic Expedition trapped in ice for 10 days

The mission to rescue the Australian Antarctic Expedition trapped in ice for 10 days.

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition has been retracing the steps of the first expedition to East Antarctica, a century ago. Its leader was Douglas Mawson, one of the great figures of the heroic age of exploration of the frozen continent. 
In the last of the programmes from the Antarctic, Andrew Luck-Baker reports on the 10 days the scientists, tourists and crew of the ship, the Academik Shokalskiy, spent locked in the ice and their eventual release via helicopters from a Chinese ice breaker to an Australian vessel.

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