Posted:
01.11.2023 16:32:00
China’s largest fleet heads to Antarctica to build research base
Two Chinese icebreaker research vessels and a cargo ship set sail on November 1st, with over 460 personnel on board, Reuters reports
The workers will help complete the construction of China’s fifth station on the world’s southernmost continent.
“China’s biggest flotilla of research vessels deployed to the Antarctic will focus on building the station on the rocky, windswept Inexpressible Island near the Ross Sea, a deep Southern Ocean bay named after a 19th century British explorer,” Reuters reports.
China has four research stations in the Antarctic built from 1985 to 2014. A US-based think tank estimated the fifth could be finished next year.
