A Royal Navy ice breaker has cut a passage through the ice to free the Norwegian cruise liner MV Fram in the Antarctic Sound.

The operation, by HMS Protecto, took two hours.

HMS Protector is continuing with her patrol of the British Antarctic Territory, completing three further five-week patrols of the continent before heading north at the beginning of April and the onset of the Austral Winter.

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