The expedition - from the Russian base of Novolazarevskaya to the Ross Sea - is expected to take six months.

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The expedition - from the Russian base of Novolazareskaya to the Ross Sea - is due to begin on 21 March and is expected to take six months.

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One afternoon last winter, two ships lined up side by side in a field of pack ice at the mouth of the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica.

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New Zealand is angry that fleets of longliners ships with lines of baited hooks that may trail a couple of kilometres behind them are moving east to the Ross Sea, New Zealand's Antarctic dependency.

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On January 19th, the day he moored his ships together in the Ross Sea, he wore a black, military-style sweater adorned with Sea Shepherd patches, and a rainbow-colored belt that held a sheathed knife.

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Watson and a crew of fifty-two volunteers had sailed the ships the Farley Mowat, from Australia, and the Robert Hunter, from Scotland to the Ross Sea with the intention of saving whales in one of their principal habitats.

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The ship wound its way along the stunning Ross Sea -- believed to be the last untouched marine eco-system on the planet -- providing scientists with an important insight into one of our few remaining healthy waterways.

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Some have not been back to the sea loch in Wester Ross since the end of the war.

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