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| | Australian Antarctic Division - 12 February (ANAN No. 92) |
 | | Severe ice conditions the next day led to the ship becoming beset, but it was able to proceed westwards along the coast after a 12-hour delay, and eventually reached Cape Colbeck, at the eastern approach to the Ross Sea, on 17 January after a difficult passage through ice. |
 | | Ice conditions worsened as the passage continued westwards into the Ross Sea due to the continued presence of several very large icebergs in that region (ANAN-64/03, 16 January 2002), and a severe blizzard was also encountered. |
 | | At the same time, that ice also prevented another tour ship, New Zealand company Heritage Expeditions' vessel' 'Akademic Shokalskiy', from travelling further south into the Ross Sea, a situation that led to the cancellation of a planned climbing and skiing expedition to Mount Erebus (ANAN-91/05, 29 January 2003). |
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