Icebreakers at work
The United States Coast Guard icebreaker Staten Island, which is breaking a channel through the ice in McMurdo Sound to Winter Quarters Bay, the harbour at McMurdo Station, is now 6.9 miles from Hut Point, near the entrance. Until winds cleared broken ice from the channel the Staten Island reported rough going. Four hundred miles north of McMurdo Station another Coast Guard icebreaker, the Northwind, has sailed from Hallett Station where she spent Christmas Day and Boxing Day. She is on her way to the McMurdo Sound area, and has moved into pack ice ■ where she has encountered floes 3ft to 4ft thick covered by 18in to 2ft of snow.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32801, 29 December 1971, Page 15
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