AN Australian icebreaker carrying the 52 passengers retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic has resumed its journey home.
The Aurora Australis will continue its interrupted resupply mission to Australia's Antarctic base Casey Station before returning to Tasmania in mid-January with the rescued scientists, journalists and tourists.
It had been slowly cracking through thick ice toward open water after a helicopter on Thursday plucked the passengers from their stranded Russian research ship and carried them to an ice floe near the Australian ship.
But on Friday afternoon, the crew of the Chinese icebreaker that provided the helicopter said they were worried about their own ship's ability to move through the ice.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Rescue Coordination Centre, which oversaw the rescue, told the Aurora to stay in the area in case help was needed.
on Saturday, AMSA said the Aurora was allowed to continue and that the Chinese ship, Snow Dragon, was safe and not in need of assistance.
Andrew Peacock, an Australian doctor and photographer rescued from the Russian ship, said his fellow passengers had been frustrated by the news of further delays on Friday.
"My feeling, and those of others I believe, today is one of relief at finally having a concrete plan for how and when we can return to loved ones, family and friends," Peacock said in an email from the Aurora.
The Chinese ship remained stuck several kilometres from the Russian icebreaker Akademik Shokalskiy, from which the passengers were rescued. The Russian ship has been immobile since Christmas Eve.
A reporter for China's official Xinhua News Agency who is aboard the Snow Dragon, Zhang Jiansong, said an iceberg appeared overnight and blocked the ship's return route.
He said the ship would again try to find a way out, possibly as early as Monday.
Zhang said late on Saturday that the 101 crew members on board the vessel were safe and had plenty of supplies.
An Antarctic tourism operator is holding out hope that the Russian icebreaker will be free in time to take 48 sightseers on a cruise of Antarctica's Ross Sea.
Heritage Expeditions has leased the Akademik Shokalskiy to depart New Zealand for the cruise on January 17.
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