Coast Guard heavy icebreaker Polar Star (WAGB 10) moors up to the ice pier at McMurdo Station. Photo: Coast Guard
By Cal Biesecker |
6 months ago |
02/07/2022
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The Coast Guard’s lone heavy polar icebreaker on Monday reached the U.S. science station in Antarctica, breaking and grooming a 37-mile channel of ice to allow resupply of the facility to allow fuel and resupply ships to reach the facilities.

The 399-foot…

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