Secular Café: Australian medic team evacuates American from Antarctica base in rare midwinter rescue

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Australian medic team evacuates American from Antarctica base in rare midwinter rescue Aug 9th 2012, 14:54 Good they were successful in getting him out: Quote: An Australian rescue team that swooped into Antarctica to evacuate an American experiencing a medical emergency landed Thursday in New Zealand. The patient, who identity has not been released, was airlifted from a U.S. scientific base in a rare midwinter rescue from the frozen continent. The specialist medical team from the Australian Antarctic Division left Christchurch, New Zealand, on Thursday morning and landed on an ice runway near the U.S. McMurdo research station in the early afternoon, said Deborah Wing, spokeswoman for the U.S. National Science Foundation, which runs the station. .... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08...scue-american/

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