This image taken by expedition doctor Andrew Peacock of www.footloosefotography.com on Thursday shows a helicopter from the nearby Chinese icebreaker Xue Long picking up the first batch of passengers from the stranded Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy as rescue operations take place after over a week of being trapped in the ice off Antarctica. AFP PHOTO
This image taken by expedition doctor Andrew Peacock of www.footloosefotography.com on Thursday shows a helicopter from the nearby Chinese icebreaker Xue Long picking up the first batch of passengers from the stranded Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy as rescue operations take place after over a week of being trapped in the ice off Antarctica. AFP PHOTO

SYDNEY: A helicopter mission to rescue 52 passengers trapped on an icebound Russian research ship finally got underway in Antarctica on Thursday after a number of false starts and failed icebreaking attempts.

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