The US has included the Akademik Alexander Karpinsky in a long list of new sanctions. Although restrictions are not likely to have an instant impact on this vessel’s Southern Ocean movements, they could cause US-aligned states to implement similar measures, experts note.
During a new UK House of Commons inquiry into British South Pole interests, a leading academic has told MPs that Russian oil and gas surveys via Cape Town may raise questions about the vulnerable region’s future.
Stuart Lunn, 58, was working for a charter airline in Febuary 2018 and says he was injured when he fell from the steps of his plane onto a blue ice runway near the South Pole.