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Australian icebreaker will resupply French Antarctic bases

Researchers and equipment will be transported to Antarctica aboard the Aurora Australis after the French ship L'Astrolabe was found to be defective.
  1. Bianca Nogrady
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Australia will transport researchers and vital supplies to France’s Antarctic research stations next month. The stations were in danger of being left without means of obtaining some supplies this summer, after the French navy discovered a critical defect in its transport ship L'Astrolabe, which is docked in Hobart, Australia.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03644-8

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  • Correction 27 November 2019: An earlier version of this story mistakenly pictured the wrong ship; this has now been corrected.

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