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Icebird

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Ice´bird`
n.1.(Zool.) An Arctic sea bird, as the Arctic fulmar.


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WHEN STEPHEN MURRAY-SMITH voyaged to Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Division on the Icebird in the summer of 1985-86, he had moments of high excitement, profound boredom, homesickness, intellectual challenge, despair, unexpected patriotism, and deep professional satisfaction--and he also had this moment: sailing steadily through a placid sea towards Davis station, the sun low on the horizon as midnight approached, the Icebird came up against a great rampart of ice.
In a second incident, just half-an-hour later, a sailor on the cargo boat Icebird died after being hit by a piece of flailing rope.
In a separate accident, another crewman was killed during the berthing of the cargo ship Icebird at the Shetland catch fish factory.
 
 
 
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