USCG Icebreaker Polar Star Deploy to Arctic This Year Amid Rising Need for More Icebreakers
The nation’s sole heavy icebreaker Polar Star will spend this winter in the Arctic rather than the Antarctic, according to a release last week by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The mission for the 400-foot vessel will be to “help protect the nation’s maritime sovereignty and security in the region.”
For years the Polar Star has supplied the McMurdo Station in Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze, an annual military mission to resupply the United States’ Antarctic stations, in support of the National Science ...
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USCG Icebreaker Polar Star Deploy to Arctic This Year Amid Rising Need for More Icebreakers
The nation’s sole heavy icebreaker Polar Star will spend this winter in the Arctic rather than the Antarctic, according to a release last week by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The mission for the 400-foot vessel will be to “help protect the nation’s maritime sovereignty and security in the region.”
For years the Polar Star has supplied the McMurdo Station in Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze, an annual military mission to resupply the United States’ Antarctic stations, in support of the National Science ...
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