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from the most unlikely direction. After the troops were landed on the glacier in conditions of extremely poor visibility and gale extreme force winds on 21 April, their conditions deteriorated rapidly still further. During several repeated rescue attempts the following day by a Wessex 3 (Antrim) and
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for 800 miles (1,300 km), reaching South
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312:List of glaciers in the Antarctic
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16:Glacier on South Georgia island
1943:Falklands War in South Georgia
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705:List of subantarctic glaciers
695:List of Antarctic ice streams
690:List of Antarctic ice shelves
372:"Fortuna Glacier, Antarctica"
189:In mid-April 1915, explorer
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1933:Glaciers of South Georgia
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292:Fleet Air Arm Museum
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