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China's 25th Antarctic expedition team has already entered Antarctica. On November 16, 4pm local time, the team held a rally aboard the Snow Dragon vessel that was navigating in the floating ice zone, pledging to complete construction of the Antarctic Kunlun Station.
Mi Wenming, assistant to the expedition team's leader and chief commander of cargo discharge operations, announced the plans of the first stage of missions for this expedition: the team will discharge five types of materials in the sea-ice zone near the Zhongshan Station, including materials for inland expedition and station-building, summer scientific research apparatus and logistics goods for the Zhongshan Station, capacity-building materials and oil products.
The materials include 1,557 barrels of aviation kerosene, 5 inland cabins and 10 containers of goods for the Zhongshan Station. Priority will be given to the discharge of materials and equipment used for building the inland Kunlun Station.
Kunlun Station, expected to be completed by the end of January 2009, will be China's first inland expedition station in Antarctica. It will be built 7.3 kilometers southwest of Dome Argus (Dome A), the highest icecap on the South Pole at 4083 m above sea level.
By People's Daily Online
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