{"id":19128,"date":"2014-12-26T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/two-years-on-the-akademik-shokalskiy-stranding-what-did-we-learn\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T05:11:00","slug":"two-years-on-the-akademik-shokalskiy-stranding-what-did-we-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/12\/two-years-on-the-akademik-shokalskiy-stranding-what-did-we-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Years on: The Akademik Shokalskiy stranding. What did we learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<span>#expeditioncruising\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The icebound crew of the <i>Akademik Shokalskiy<\/i> made headlines but, a year on, the fruits of their expedition are revealed \u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/static\/w-620\/h--\/q-95\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2014\/12\/25\/1419525761330\/The-Australasian-Antarcti-012.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/static\/w-620\/h--\/q-95\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2014\/12\/25\/1419525761330\/The-Australasian-Antarcti-012.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alok Jha and Laurence Topham look on at the Akademik Shokalskiy<br \/>beset in  ice in East Antarctica. Photograph: Andrew Peacock \/Rex Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The voyage was meant to retrace the steps of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travel-antarctica.com\/2008\/05\/sir-douglas-mawson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Mawson<\/a>, the  great polar explorer and scientist who led the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australasian_Antarctic_Expedition\" target=\"_blank\">Australasian Antarctic Expedition<\/a> of 1911. What happened instead captured the world\u2019s  attention, something none of the scientists, journalists and paying  public aboard could have foreseen.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Akademik Shokalskiy<\/i> got stuck in ice on Christmas Day 2013 only  two weeks after leaving New Zealand. A rescue mission swung into  operation. Chinese, French and Australian icebreakers hurried to the  scene only to be defeated by the ice floes themselves.<\/p>\n<p><span>Read the full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/dec\/25\/rescued-scientists-warning-from-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/dec\/25\/rescued-scientists-warning-from-antarctica <\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/dec\/25\/rescued-scientists-warning-from-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/dec\/25\/rescued-scientists-warning-from-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/dec\/25\/rescued-scientists-warning-from-antarctica<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#expeditioncruising\u00a0 The icebound crew of the Akademik Shokalskiy made headlines but, a year on, the fruits of their expedition are revealed \u00a0 Alok Jha and Laurence Topham look on at the Akademik Shokalskiybeset in ice in East Antarctica. Photograph: Andrew Peacock \/Rex Features The voyage was meant to retrace the steps of Douglas Mawson, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}