Members of China’s 34th Antarctic expedition lift a crane from China’s research icebreaker Xuelong to a barge on Jan 16, 2018. Large engineering equipments on Jan 16 were transferred from Xuelong to the Inexpressible Island, where China’s 5th research station will begin construction near the Ross Sea in the Antarctic. The new base is expected to set up within five years, and will provide year-round support for researchers conducting tasks such as observations of land, ocean, atmosphere, ice shelf and biology, establishment of an observation and monitoring network in the Antarctic, and survey of marine environmental protection. [Photo/Xinhua]

Members of China’s 34th Antarctic expedition land a crawler excavator on the Inexpressible Island on Jan 16, 2018. Large engineering equipments on Jan 16 were transferred from China’s research icebreaker Xuelong to the Inexpressible Island, where the country’s 5th research station will begin construction near the Ross Sea in the Antarctic. The new base is expected to set up within five years, and will provide year-round support for researchers conducting tasks such as observations of land, ocean, atmosphere, ice shelf and biology, establishment of an observation and monitoring network in the Antarctic, and survey of marine environmental protection. [Photo/Xinhua]

Members of China’s 34th Antarctic expedition land a crawler excavator on the Inexpressible Island on Jan 16, 2018. Large engineering equipments on Jan 16 were transferred from China’s research icebreaker Xuelong to the Inexpressible Island, where the country’s 5th research station will begin construction near the Ross Sea in the Antarctic. The new base is expected to set up within five years, and will provide year-round support for researchers conducting tasks such as observations of land, ocean, atmosphere, ice shelf and biology, establishment of an observation and monitoring network in the Antarctic, and survey of marine environmental protection.[Photo/Xinhua]

Members of China’s 34th Antarctic expedition land an excavating loader on the Inexpressible Island on Jan 16, 2018. Large engineering equipments on Jan 16 were transferred from China’s research icebreaker Xuelong to the Inexpressible Island, where the country’s 5th research station will begin construction near the Ross Sea in the Antarctic. The new base is expected to set up within five years, and will provide year-round support for researchers conducting tasks such as observations of land, ocean, atmosphere, ice shelf and biology, establishment of an observation and monitoring network in the Antarctic, and survey of marine environmental protection.[Photo/Xinhua]

Members of China’s 34th Antarctic expedition land a crawler excavator on the Inexpressible Island on Jan 16, 2018. Large engineering equipments on Jan 16 were transferred from China’s research icebreaker Xuelong to the Inexpressible Island, where the country’s 5th research station will begin construction near the Ross Sea in the Antarctic. The new base is expected to set up within five years, and will provide year-round support for researchers conducting tasks such as observations of land, ocean, atmosphere, ice shelf and biology, establishment of an observation and monitoring network in the Antarctic, and survey of marine environmental protection. [Photo/Xinhua]

Photo taken on Jan 16, 2018 shows containers on the Inexpressible Island of the Antarctic that lifted there as temporary buildings in last December. Large engineering equipments on Jan 16 were transferred from China’s research icebreaker Xuelong during its 34th Antarctic expedition to the Inexpressible Island, where the country’s 5th research station will begin construction near the Ross Sea in the Antarctic. The new base is expected to set up within five years, and will provide year-round support for researchers conducting tasks such as observations of land, ocean, atmosphere, ice shelf and biology, establishment of an observation and monitoring network in the Antarctic, and survey of marine environmental protection. [Photo/Xinhua]