Reality exceeds poems…..

The forces of nature are not to be trifled with. Old idiom but true….

— A Chinese icebreaker heading to free a polar expedition vessel trapped in an Antarctic ice floe got stopped by the ice and weather, its captain told CNN.
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”Right now we are waiting for winds to blow ice away so we can move closer,” he said. ”The current ice condition is exceeding our capabilities to break through further.”

The captain acknowledged his ship may need help from two other icebreakers headed to the area if conditions deteriorate.Chinese icebreaker stalled en route to stranded ship, CNN December 27, 2013 — Updated 2216 GMT

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The Chinese crew is hoping a French icebreaker 14 nautical miles away will arrive and offer relief, said Zhu Li, chief officer of the Chinese ship.

But it’s likely the French vessel Astrolabe will also be slowed by the polar cap’s extreme frigidity, Zhu said.

Those two icebreakers — plus a third, from Australia — were battling the planet’s coldest environment in trying to reach the stranded Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy, whose 74 researchers, crew and tourists remained in good condition despite being at a frozen standstill since Monday.

Antarctic crew amazed by viral fame It all shows that some lands — especially the ends of the Earth — will never be tamed.Only at the South Pole: Icebreaker also stuck — in ice — heading for stranded ship, cnn.com December 28, 2013 — Updated 0239 GMT

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Remember: Den 11. januar 1911 nådde «Fram» den store isbarrieren, og dagen etter fant de frem til overvintringstedet Amundsen hadde sett seg ut. I sitt brev til Nansen gjorde Amundsen et poeng ut av at han ikke ville legge sin base sammen med britene i McMurdoc-sundet. Der hadde britene selvfølgelig førsterett. For seg selv hadde han allerede bestemt seg for å anlegge basen i Hvalbukta, en hel breddegrad nærmere polen enn britenes base. Den 14. januar fortøyde de skuta og reiste huset Amundsen hadde fått konstruert før avreisen fra Norge. I tillegg satte de opp fjorten telt. Leiren ble som under Gjøaekspedisjonen oppkalt etter ekspedisjonens fartøy, og fikk navnet Framheim. Amundsen skrev i sin dagbok at den mektige isveggen ved basen strakte seg 100 fot til værs.

Overvintrerne på Framheim benyttet seg av en rekke lager og arbeidsrom under snøen, og hadde etter forholdene det ganske behagelig. I denne snøkjelleren hadde de til og med anlagt en badstu.1910-12 Fram III, Amundsens Sørpolekspedisjon, polarhistorie.no/ekspedisjoner

It’s a bit queer that the ship and the so called experts the Chinese Ice Breaker is supposed to resque aren’t in the area where the observations Amundsen and his men made, the observations the so called experts are supposed trying to repeat…. but never mind, I guess they think they can correct the latitude and longitude for where observations were made same way they done correcting temperatures of the past and CO2 values in the present….
Btw. the first real scholary station which was set up in the Antarctic was set up AFTER World War II…..

Räddning för fastfrusna frös inne, GP 27 december 2013
Räddning för fastfrusna frös inne, Aftonbladet 27 december 2013
Räddning för fastfrusna frös inne, SvD 27 december 2013