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 MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian ship reached open water off Antarctica after struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days, a Russian shipping company and a British travel agency said Friday.
The icebreaker Captain Khlebnikov, with 101 passengers on board, got stuck in the ice earlier this week near Snow Hill Island in the Weddell Sea. It took the ship five days to get out of the ice, Fareastern Shipping Co. spokeswoman Tatyana Kulikova said.
British-based Exodus Travels Ltd. also said the ship was in open water and is expected in the Argentine port of Ushuaia on Sunday, six days behind schedule.
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