China's third Arctic expedition boarding the ice-breaker "Xuelong" (Snow Dragon) returned to Shanghai at 2:00 p.m. on September 22, 2008.
The ice-breaker reached at 85:25:00 degrees north latitude, breaking the record in China's sailing history. Meanwhile, the carrier plane boarding the "Xuelong" flied to the station in Arctic at 87:01:00 degrees north latitude, which was also the northernmost record in the history of China's Arctic expedition.
The ice-breaker, leaving for the Arctic on July 11, 2008 from Shanghai, conducted 75-day-long review there. It is China's third Arctic expedition with 122 researchers aboard. The former twice were respectively in 1999 and in 2003.
By People's Daily Online
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