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Subject Antarctica Research Laboratory Evacuated After 30 Mile Long Crack In Ice Appears Overnight!
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The eighty-eight scientists based at the Halley VI Research Station in East Antarctica have been obliged to abandon for several months because of a huge crack in the ice which has doubled in length in the space of fewer than three months.

Ironically enough, the decision to evacuate all personnel from the research station comes only a few weeks after the facility had been forced to relocate because of another giant chasm which was capable of cutting the entire building off from the ice shelf and sending it floating into the ocean. The Halley VI station is equipped to deal with relocation. The research pod is comprised of eight different segments which can be taken apart and towed to a safe location on ski-fitted hydraulic legs.

However, before the scientists could even finish the relocation operation, they were forced to admit to admit defeat following the emergence of an even more treacherous crack. The new crack, which is referred to as the Halloween crack as it was discovered on the 31st October has doubled in size since the researchers first discovered it. It currently stands at a length of 44 kilometers, and researchers have no idea as to how long it will become. While the team thinks that it is unlikely that the crack will sever an iceberg from the ice shelf, they consider the situation far too unpredictable to justify a continued presence at the research station at this current time. Sixteen of the research scientists were scheduled to stay over the winter months in Antarctica. During the months of winter, the station temperatures can fall to 55 degrees Celcius and researchers operate in twenty-four-hour darkness, so this particular mission is not for the faint-hearted. However, despite the researchers involved, the team have decided that the cracks are too dangerous and they will not be permitted to stay. If something were to happen to a researcher or the station itself the wintry conditions might make a rescue attempt impossible. To ensure that the station does not miss any valuable information during this period the British Antarctic Survey plan to run climate-monitoring equipment throughout the winter months. "What we've decided is that given the unpredictability, combined with our inability to do anything about it in winter – no aircraft in the continent, it's dark, it's very cold, all those kinds of issues – then actually the prudent thing to do is withdraw our staff, close the station down in a controlled manner and then go back in next summer, "said British Antarctic Survey director of operations, Tim Stocking. "Bringing them home for winter is a prudent precaution given the changes that our glaciologists have seen in the ice shelf in recent months." This article (Antarctic Research Station Is Being Evacuated Due To New Threat) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with full attribution and a link to the original source on

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