'It's the earliest we've ever gone to an Antarctic station,' Robb Clifton of the Australian Antarctic Division said of the icebreaker ship rescue mission.
A researcher has been rescued from Antarctica via boat amid a medical emergency, with air evacuation being unavailable due to the Antarctic winter.
, having broken through sea ice to get as close as possible to the station. The researcher was then delivered to the ship on Sunday via two helicopters with a medical retrieval team onboard.gives us in terms of icebreaking and aircraft capability," Clifton said.
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