The team had marked out a 400m landing strip on the ice last weekend, but the Twin Otter supply plane was forced to turn back on Sunday and could not take off on Monday or Tuesday due to bad weather.

上周末，探险队已经在冰面上划分出一条400米长的飞机跑道，但由于恶劣的气候，计划周日抵达的双獭式补给飞机被迫返航，而且周一和周二都无法在北极着陆。

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The strip of land on Africa's southern coast - around 240 miles east of Cape Town - became the only place that remained habitable during the devastating ice age, scientists claim.

科学家声称位于非洲南部沿海的那一片土地 --开普敦以东约240英里 - - 在毁灭性的冰河时代，成为当时人类唯一可栖身之地。

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The view from the bridge: broken bits of ice, like an explosion in a meringue factory, stretching towards the horizon, where the midnight sun held on in a pale yellow strip.

午夜的太阳悬挂在地平线上呈现出淡黄色。

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"As of mid-March, only a narrow strip of shelf ice was protecting several thousand kilometers of potential further break-up, " the group said.

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