The World - News from Jan. 13, 1986
U.S. helicopters rescued all 21 crew members of a British South Pole expedition support ship that sank the same day as three British explorers reached the pole on foot. Crew members of the Southern Quest sent out a distress call when pack ice split the vessel’s hull. The three explorers, who were retracing the doomed 1912 polar journey of Capt. Robert Scott, are expected to be flown out by specially fitted Cessna aircraft. The ship’s crew was taken to McMurdo Sound, where the United States and New Zealand share an Antarctic research base.
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