Antarctic explorers have been left without accommodation and fuel supply after a massive ice sheet carrying shipping containers broke off and floated away from a research station.
The German-operated Neumayer Station III was battered by a violent blizzard back in January, resulting in a huge slab of ice and seven shipping containers drifting away into the Weddell Sea.
The seven containers had been placed on the ice to be loaded onto a ship, so when they drifted away before being collected, crew members were left without supplies, including special gear, 9,500 litres of winter diesel, gas cylinders and batteries.
Another container served as
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