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Xue Long (simplified Chinese: 雪龙; traditional Chinese: 雪龍; pinyin: Xuě Lóng; lit. 'Snow Dragon', shway-lung) [6] is a Chinese icebreaking research vessel.Built in 1993 at Kherson Shipyard in Ukraine, she was converted from an Arctic cargo ship to a polar research and re-supply vessel by Hudong–Zhonghua Shipbuilding of Shanghai by the mid-1990s.
RV Laurence M. Gould is an icebreaker used by researchers from the United States' National Science Foundation. [3] [1] for research in the Southern Ocean.The vessel is named after Laurence McKinley Gould, an American scientist who had explored both the Arctic and Antarctic. [5]
She was built in 2004 by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Jinhae-gu, South Korea, [1] originally with a red hull and registered in Norway as the MT Jutul. [3] [7] In 2011, Maersk won a long-term contract to supply Thule AFB, in Greenland and McMurdo Station, in Antarctica, and the Maersk Peary was reflagged as an American vessel and painted blue, sailing with an American crew. [2]
Aiviq is an American icebreaking anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) built in 2012 to support oil exploration and drilling in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska.The vessel's primary task was towing and laying anchors for drilling rigs, and oil spill response.
MarineTraffic is a maritime analytics provider, [1] which provides real-time information on the movements of ships and the current location of ships in harbors and ports. [2] A database of information on the vessels includes for example details of the location where they were built plus dimensions of the vessels, gross tonnage and International ...
The Akademik Shuleykin class consists of a series of Finnish-built ice-strengthened ships constructed for the USSR. Originally used for oceanographic research, several of these vessels have been converted for tourism in Arctic/Antarctic waters, accommodating approximately 50 passengers.
The curved bow allows Polar Star to ride up on the ice, using the ship's weight to break the ice. [ 4 ] The 13,000-ton (13,200-metric ton) Polar Star is able to break through ice up to 21 feet (6.4 m) thick by backing and ramming, and can steam continuously through 6 feet (1.8 m) of ice at 3 knots (5.6 km/h).
S. A. Agulhas is a South African ice-strengthened training ship and former polar research vessel.She was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Shimonoseki, Japan, in 1978.