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Penguin love

Iceberg melting

From above

Third superfluous penguin

Gourdin Island

Lovely couple of seals

The coldest continent

Iceberg

Flying birds

On deck

Friendly sea elephant

Astrolabe Island

Two penguins

Cruise ship

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Despite all our advanced shipbuilding and navigation tech, sailing through Arctic or Antarctic waters can still treacherous — as an Australian fishing boat discovered after it got stuck in in the ice this week. Today, the US Coastal Guard’s icebreaker, Polar Star, came to the rescue.

Polar Star has been around since the 1970s, and it is a tank. With a 5cm-thick steel hull and incredibly powerful engines, it’s still doing what it was built to do four decades ago: Cutting through thick ice to do everything from saving stranded vessels to delivering supplies to McMurdo Station by clearing a path to the station — as seen in the AP photo above from late January.

This week, Polar Star was assigned a different task: Rescuing the Antarctic Chieftain seen above, a vessel with a crew of 26 that was stranded in the ice with badly damaged propellers. According to the LA Times, Polar Star reached the trapped boat today — and is now towing it out of the ice floes to safety.

Check out a few of the AP’s photos of the rescue below — this is the stranded boat, shot from the deck of Polar Star.

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Whaler’s Bay Ghost Town, Deception Island

Abandoned places of Antarctica that were left behind by military and scientists.

Pole of Inaccessability with Bust of Lenin

Grytviken Harbour, South Georgia

eith Harbour, South Georgia

East Base American Military Station, Stonington Island

Base W, Detaille Island

Sunken Ship, Ardley Cove

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I wonder how they work there.

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The Concordia research station is located on the Antarctic Plateau and operates year round.

The Concordia research station is located on the Antarctic Plateau and operates year round. It is over 500 kilometres from the nearest civilisation and is considered the most isolated human outpost on the planet. 3233 metres above sea level, Concordia is built atop a naturally occurring summit on the Antarctic Ice Sheet and experiences dry conditions with temperatures well below freezing. These conditions are ideal for the study of astronomy, which is one project conducted here along with the investigation into climate change.

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