Cruise Brits are trapped in Antarctic; PENGUINS.DOZENS of British tourists on a Russian ice-breaker cruise ship are stranded in freezing temperatures in the Antarctic. The penguin-spotters, many of whom paid more than pounds 10,000 for their trip, have been trapped for four days on the 28-year-old Kapitan Khlebnikov in a bay near Snow Hill Island Snow Hill Island () is an almost completely snowcapped island, 20 miles (32 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, lying off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from James Ross Island to the northeast by Admiralty Sound. in the Weddell Sea. More than 50 UK tourists are said to be stuck, including three staff from The Frozen Planet, a BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. documentary. One report said up to 80 of the 105 passengers were British. German Kuzin of the ship's owners, the Far Eastern Shipping Company, said: "There's nothing to worry about. The ship got stuck between an island and an ice massif mas·sif n. 1. A large mountain mass or compact group of connected mountains forming an independent portion of a range. 2. ." The Russian transportation ministry said the ship was safe and it might leave today if the wind shifted. |
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