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Jump to full article: New York Post, 2004-12-29
Intro: PETER Tunney, the art world oddball who famously lived inside a VIP room at Crobar nightclub for 300 days, is headed to the South Pole. Tunney tells us he's rented a 500-foot Russian fishing trawler to cut through the icy waters surrounding Elephant Island in Antarctica, where he plans to spend two weeks painting and taking photographs. The fast-talking financial whiz-turned-pop artist wants to retrace the steps of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explorer who led his party to safety on Elephant Island after his ship was crushed at sea. "I'm going to put up signs that say, 'Keep off the Grass' and 'No Smoking,' like, all the stupid rules we have to follow here, on this giant glacier,"
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Jump to full article: San Francisco Chronicle, 2002-06-27
Author: Ray Delgado, Chronicle Staff Writer
Intro: An Argentine ice-breaking ship set off for Antarctica on Tuesday to help rescue a supply ship that has been trapped by an ice shelf in horrible weather for more than two weeks.
The Almirante Irizar, operated by the Argentine navy and considered one of the toughest icebreakers in South America, is expected to arrive in about 10 days at the ice shelf, located close to the South Pole. . .
The ship is in no danger while it floats in the safety of the bay, but crew members have been forced to ration food to one meal a day and supplies are expected to last another month at most.
A spokesman for South Africa's ministry of environmental affairs and tourism told Agence France Presse that the stranded passengers and crew earlier said their first request was for cigarettes, then sugar, butter and coffee. [This graph only]
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