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Antarctic homecoming – responding to COVID-19 | |
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2020-06-06 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | Over the next few days, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research and support teams will return from Antarctica to UK after a 20-day sea voyage on board a charter ship and the Royal Research Ship (RRS) James Clark Ross. This homecoming is the end of an exceptional mission to repatriate scientists, support teams and construction workers who completed their Antarctic summer field season work in April and May. The COVID-19 Pandemic disrupted all international air travel, including BAS normal routes through the Falklands and South America. The only safe alternative was to bring staff and colleagues home by sea. On Saturday 6 June, the MS Hebridean Sky expects to arrive at Portsmouth International Port around 7.00-8.00am. On Tuesday 9 June, the BAS ship RRS James Clark Ross expects to arrive at Harwich Port. BAS staff and construction teams, who worked at Rothera and King Edward Point Research Stations, will at last be reunited with families and friends – albeit under social distancing rules.
Further information:On 7 April, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) announced exceptional plans to repatriate scientists, support teams and construction workers as they completed their Antarctic summer field season work. Major disruption to international travel caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and restrictions imposed to limit the spread of the virus, meant that BAS has had to find safe and secure solutions to bring its people home safely to the UK.
BAS chartered a passenger ship, moored off the Falkland Islands and operated by Noble Caledonia, to provide quarantined accommodation and transport for 85 science, support staff and a number of construction workers who were building a new wharf at Rothera Research Station for the RRS Sir David Attenborough. BAS staff will return to find BAS Headquarters in Cambridge closed to all but a few laboratory and facilities staff, and most people working from home.
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来源平台 | British Antarctic Survey |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/273190 |
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