011779 Chinese Antarctic expedition ship completes discharge
(by Qiu Weimin)
King George island, 16 January (Xinhua) The j121 rescue ship of the first Chinese Antarctic expedition team completed its cargo unloading task here at 5:20 p.m. today.
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In the 20 days since their arrival in the Antarctic, the naval officers and seamen on the ship, which is in charge of cargo transport expedition, went all out to unload cargos while sending men island for building "The Great Wall" observation station.. chargeable climate, they spent several successive sleepless nights at opportune moments and braved storms and icy weathers in completing their task of unloading the cargos to the observation station.
After the completion of the discharge, the naval ship tonight sent_task__ teams onto the island to join in the efforts of station building.
At 5:00 this afternoon, the two generators installed at "The Great Wall" station began generating electricity. The electric lights have reached the dining rooms, tents and construction sites. enditem
012056 Chinese begin survey in Antarctic expedition.
Bransfield Strait, 19 January (Xinhua) The Chinese Antarctic expedition team landed on its first observation post here at
10:30 p.m. today, beginning its scientific survey of the Antarctic.
A degree nine storm was raging when the ship "Xiangyanghong 10′′ carrying the expedition team left king George island for bransfield a few hours ago.
The Chinese expedition team has made some changes in its original survey plan in light of the Antarctic conditions.
The survey covers 160,000 square kilometers of waters, and calls for the establishment of 21 ocean observation posts, five less than the number in the original plan. The total distance of the voyage is about 2,400 nautical miles.
The Chinese team will, in the next 30 days, undertake survey of the bransfield strait, the drake passage and the bellingshausen sea. Enditem
012047 First Antarctic-Beijing radio contact successful
King George Island, 19 January (Xinhua) expedition team
The Chinese Antarctic on the island here successfully established wireless radio link with Beijing early this morning over a more than 10,000 kilometers.
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The radio station installed on the island with equipment designed and made by China worked well in its first contact with the which lasted 26 minutes.
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During the communications, its progress
the expedition team gave a Brief account in erecting China's "Great Wall" observation station Antarctica while Beijing extended best wishes to all the members of Chinese expedition team. Enditem
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