Cruise ship stranded in Antarctica

Published: 5 December 2008 y., Friday
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Navy officials said the ship lay some 186 miles (300km) southwest of Argentina's Marambio military base on the Antarctic Peninsula, in a sheltered strait near Isla Bravante.

 

Šaltinis: Reuters
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