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After more than a week aboard a ship stuck in ice off Antarctica, 52 scientists and paying passengers from the Russian ship 

 are either aboard or headed to an Australian icebreaker that will now take them to warmer waters.
Australian climate change professor 

 (9:45 p.m. in Australia, the time zone he's been using) that:



It wasn't immediately clear whether Turney meant that all of the evacuees were on the Aurora Australis, but that seemed to be his message. He's been tweeting and posting videos throughout the ordeal. This morning, his posts 

, which had two correspondents on board the Akademik Shokalskiy, 

reported soon after Turney's post appeared

 that the "rescue mission ... has passed off smoothly, with 52 people removed from the vessel. It 

So, the evacuees were flown to "an ice floe near the icebreaker Aurora Australis."


The Akademik Shokalskiy, which was about halfway into a month-long expedition, got stuck in the ice near Cape de la Motte in East Antarctica on Christmas Eve. Its 22 crew members are staying behind. They'll hopefully be able to get underway again either after the ice breaks up or when other ships are able to clear a path.  Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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After more than a week aboard a ship stuck in ice off Antarctica, 52 scientists and paying passengers from the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy are either aboard or headed to an Australian icebreaker that will now take them to warmer waters.

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