On March 19, 1952, his team landed with a C-47 aircraft, modified to have both wheels and skis, on a tabular iceberg in the Arctic Ocean and established a weather station there, which remained manned for 22 years before the iceberg broke up.
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His HMS " Paramore " ( or " Paramour " ) penetrated the Antarctic Convergence to reach some 90 nmi ( 170 km ) north of South Georgia, where he mistook few tabular icebergs for islands ( as possibly did Vespucci before him ).
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The new housing facilities were a vast improvement over the previous base ones : since 1955, the men who wintered in the old Belgrano I Base were living inside tunnels dug in the ice, ice that was always moving slowly towards the sea and, as finally happened, would become a tabular iceberg drifting through the Southern Ocean.
