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ANTARCTIC SUPPORT AND RESEARCH VESSELS AGULHAS The Agulhas is the Antarctic Support vessel operated by the Republic of South Africa. She is equiped to work in heavy pack ice and is used for supply to bases in the various sub-Antarctic islands as well as to the SANAE Base on the Antarctic Continent itself AKADEMIK FEDOROV The Russian AkademikFederov was built in Rauma Repola, Finland in 1987 as an ice strengthened vessel. she is a sister ship to Michael Somov. She has 12 laboratories on board and has a heli-pad on her aft deck. The photo above shows her at Cape Town in South Africa ALMIRANTE IRIZAR The Almirante Irizar is the main Argentine Antarctic support vessel. She is a fully equipped icebreaker with the highest possible +1A1 icebreaking classification. She carries a crew of 135 plus 45 additional passengers and has space for 2 Sea King SH-3D or similar helicopters. She was built in Finland in 1978 and since then the Almirante Irizar has worked every year in the Antarctic supplying scientific research stations and also being employed as a floating laboratory or carrying out search and rescue missions. ALMIRANTE OSCAR VIEL The Almirante Oscar Viel is the main Chilean Antarctic supply vessel. It has a strengthened hull enabling it to push through thin pack ice as shown in the photo above.? It has a pennant number AP-46 and is often identified this way as its full name of Almirante Oscar Viel Rompehielos is rather long. Rompehielos means Icebreaker. AMERICAN TERN For the 2002-2003 season the American Tern took on the role of? the main American Antarctic supply vessel, replacing the long serving Green Wave which was proving both unreliable and too small. The American Tern was built in Germany 1990 to Finnish Ice class 1A specifications and has a 50% greater carrying capacity than Green Wave. The vessel is operated by American Automar which has a contract with the American Military Sealife Command which provides the cargo capacity for the US Antarctic Program