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HMS Protector, the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship, returned home to Portsmouth recently, 10 May, following a 9-month deployment to Antarctica.

HMS Protector left Portsmouth on 17 September 2012 and sailed south via St Helena, Simon’s Town in South Africa and Tristan da Cunha, before arriving in Antarctica in early December.

Operating in the British Antarctic Territory and around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands throughout the austral summer, the ship conducted 3 intensive work periods in the ice, and a fourth work period in the waters surrounding South Georgia.

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