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Timetable
SWEDARP 2006/07 – Oden Southern Ocean
The icebreaker Oden left the shipyard in Landskrona on 3 November, Göteborg 5 November and is now sailing south across the Atlantic Ocean. The Swedish expedition participants fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina. They will embark the Oden by boat on 4 December. Then the Oden sails to Punta Arenas, Chile, where the Chilean and American scientific crewembark on 10 December. Oden's route then continues along the Antarctic Peninsula halvön, towards the Ross Sea, where Oden is starting to break ice to the US Antarctic research station McMurdo. The US research council, National Science Foundation, charters Oden from 25 December, when the research programme on board ends. Scientific crew, expedition management and the first Swedish crew will disembark at McMurdo and fly home from there by way of Christchurch, New Zealand, around the New Year. Thereafter the Oden will break ice, with a new Swedish crew aboard, to make way for incoming tankers and cargo ships to McMurdo. The Oden departs Antarctica for Sweden in February 2007 and will return to the shipyard in Landskrona on 1 April. SWEDARP 2006/07 – Queen Maud Land: Swedish research stations Wasa and Svea Technicians and expedition management to the Swedish stations in Queen Maud Land flew from Stockholm to Cape Town, South Africa, between 2-5 November. On 10 November they continued toward Antarctica and the Russian station Novolazarevskaja in a IL-76 aeroplane. Basler planes are used for the transportation from there to Wasa.The second group of scientists and technicians to Wasa and Svea will leave Sweden 2 January 2007 for Cape Town, South Africa. From Cape Town they will travel with an Orion plane from the Norwegian Airforce to the Norwegian Antarctic station Troll in Queen Maud Land. Basler planes are used for the transportation from there to Wasa. In the beginning of December the expedition participants will travel by tracked vehicle to the ice edge, where they will meet and unload the cargo ship Papanin. The ship left Oslo in October carrying a freight of a new tracked vehicle (a TL6 from Hägglunds/Berco), equipment and food supplies for the Swedish-Japanese glaciological traverse 2007/08. Transportation to Svea is made with snowmobile and/or tracked vehicle from Wasa. SWEDARP 2006/07 – Queen Maud Land: Neumayer
One Swedish scientist will work on the German research station Neumayer.
He travel Stockholm–Cape Town 3 December, continues flying on 7 December
to Antarctica and the Russian station Novolazarevskaja and from there with
a Basler plane to Neumayer when the weather permits. SWEDARP 2006/07 – South Pole, Amundsen-Scott
Base
The Swedish physicists and drillers who will participate in the international
project IceCube are flewn to the South Pole within the US Polar Programme
from October 2006 to January 2007. They travel from Christchurch, New Zealand,
to McMurdo Station by the Ross Sea, Antarctica, in C-17 planes (US Air Force
cargo aircraft). Weather permitting, and when the temperature rises above
-50°C, the participants are flewn to the South Pole. The Antarctic summer
season ends in February 2007. A Swedish citizen under the employ of the
American wing of the project will be a part of the team that "overwinter"
at the station. He will stay 15 months at the South Pole. |
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Updated
2006-11-23
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