what do the three ships have in common?
and a bit older ship..
sounds like a fine ship.. making dozens of famous expeditions to Antarctica
in a comically ironic twist of fate...
we have a ship that went to Antarctica and returned often..
a Ice breaker with the same name.. (a namesake perhaps in honor of the famous Australian Douglas Mawson.)
now a person may wonder why this is ironic...
well now we need to look at the other ship...
yep a bunch of scientist on summer break.. yep folks it is summer down under.. (which includes Antarctica)
but what was the ship doing out there this summer..
now that is funny... global warming scientists stuck in the SUMMER Sea Ice ..
now for the "rest of the story"
now that is comically ironic.. the global warming scientist hoped to re-create Australian explorer Douglas Mawson's century-old voyage to Antarctica on the Aurora, when it became trapped.
and the ship sent to rescue it.. the Aurora Australis had to turn back..
now that is a bit of embarrassing news for the left..
The Australian government's resupply ship Aurora Australis is now en route to make one final bid to free the icebound boat and is expected to reach the Akademik today.
The Aurora Australis has abandoned its first attempt to cut through the ice surrounding the stranded Akademik Shokalskiy in Antarctica after moving just two nautical miles.
"The ice became too thick for us to penetrate. Some of the floes are up to two metres of ice with a metre of snow on top and very compact.
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"There was just nowhere for us to go."
and a bit older ship..
SY Aurora
In 1910, she was bought by Douglas Mawson for his Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
In December 1912, the Aurora returned to find that Douglas Mawson, Xavier Mertz, and Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis had set out on a sled expedition, and were overdue on their return. The captain attempted to wait for the expedition to return, but poor anchorage and extremely strong winds combined to cause a number of anchor chains to break. At the end of January the ship had to leave or risk getting stuck for the winter.
sounds like a fine ship.. making dozens of famous expeditions to Antarctica
in a comically ironic twist of fate...
we have a ship that went to Antarctica and returned often..
a Ice breaker with the same name.. (a namesake perhaps in honor of the famous Australian Douglas Mawson.)
now a person may wonder why this is ironic...
well now we need to look at the other ship...
Scientists Trapped in Antarctic Ice.
The Akademik Shokalskiy, which has been on a research expedition to Antarctica.
yep a bunch of scientist on summer break.. yep folks it is summer down under.. (which includes Antarctica)
but what was the ship doing out there this summer..
The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, “climate scientist”, who has “set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”
now that is funny... global warming scientists stuck in the SUMMER Sea Ice ..
now for the "rest of the story"
The scientific team on board the research ship — which left New Zealand on Nov. 28 — had been recreating Australian explorer Douglas Mawson's century-old voyage to Antarctica when it became trapped.
National Geographic bluntly states the mission purpose:
...The current crop of explorers are hoping to document some of the same data and compare them to Mawson's numbers, "using the twist of modern technology," Turney told National Geographic earlier this month.
As may be expected, global warming might play a role in this, he suggests, particularly with respect to melted ice in the East Antarctic.
now that is comically ironic.. the global warming scientist hoped to re-create Australian explorer Douglas Mawson's century-old voyage to Antarctica on the Aurora, when it became trapped.
and the ship sent to rescue it.. the Aurora Australis had to turn back..
now that is a bit of embarrassing news for the left..