HOBART, Australia (Reuters) – A giant iceberg has forced an Australian team to leave his pilgrimage summer to Antarctica, the base built by the browser most famous of the nation, Douglas Mawson, altering the celebrations planned for the centennial of the expedition of Mawson.
The iceberg known as B9B and about 100 km, has entered the Bay of the Commonwealth in Eastern Antarctica, blocking access by sea to the historical Mawson, wooden cabins situated in an area isolated from the continent at Cape Denison.
“I am very disappointed.” “Would have been wonderful to be part of the action,” he told Reuters Rob Easther, Manager of the expedition huts of Mawson.
La Fundación cabins of Mawson sends mission every summer to develop repair and restore the buildings, constructed by Mawson and his team in 1912, during his expedition in 1911-14 Cape Denison.
The team expected to be on the ground to help visitors to several cruises that planned to carry out the 2,500 km journey from the island of Tasmania, to the South of Australia, Cape Denison for the centennial of the expedition of Mawson, sailed from Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, on December 2, 2011.
