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Stuck in the ice- back in 1985 the World Science Fiction Convention was in Melbourne, Australia, so a lot of my friends

and I went to Australia and did a lot of traveling around eastern Australia.

One of my friends and I were walking around the Sydney waterfront, and saw a ship with a signboard advertising "In the "Footsteps of Scott".

It was an expedition for three men to follow Scotts route to the Pole, unsupprted enroute.

The ship, SOUTHERN QUEST, was their support ship and carried, among other things, a small aircraft, disassembled.

The three men made it to the Pole on January 11th, 1986.

Meanwhile, the ship had been caught in the ice, crushed and sank on the 12th.  The three men and the ships crew, were evacuated by the US, who were

angry that they'd been saddled with these adventurers.  And the expedition people were angry because they'd been evacuated, claiming that

they were capable of self-rescue.

There are a couple of article in National Geographic, a book (somewhere in the house) and a couple of souverniers here,

and my friend has a few things, too.

The ice is unforgiving.

best, doug

(She and I both got sightseeing rides in a Tiger Moth, too.  She's a published and award-winning SF writer)