Making it through the ice

A lot has happened in our transit from New Zealand to Antarctica. We crossed the Antarctic Circle and the Prime Meridian. We cut straight through the Southern Ocean to meet up with the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, and got escorted safely through the ice.     Ice was a really big problem for Southern Ocean explorers in the past, and it still can be for scientific ocean drilling today. On past expeditions to polar regions,…