Snow Dragon returns

Frontier officers prepare to board icebreaker Xue Long, which translates literally as Snow Dragon, at Wusong port in Shanghai yesterday to handle entry proceedings for the 134 Chinese researchers and crew aboard. The vessel returned to the city after its 27th scientific expedition to the Antarctic.

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