Name Araon Laid down May 2008 Homeport Incheon, South Korea Construction started May 2008 Range 37.04 million m | Cost 108 billion won Completed September 2009 Length 110 m Launched 11 June 2009 Endurance 2.3 months | |
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Operator Korea Polar Research Institute, South Korea Builders Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | ||
Rv araon icebreaker operated by the government of south korea
RV Araon is a large icebreaker operated by the Government of South Korea. The vessel was commissioned in 2009. She supplies the King Sejong Station, and the Jang Bogo Station, South Korea's second Antarctic research station.
She underwent her sea trials in January 2010, in the Ross Sea. Her first foreign port of call was Lyttelton, New Zealand.
The first location her crew investigated, for a South Korean Antarctic base, in the Cape Burks area, was not deemed suitable, and she then investigated the selected site in Terra Nova Bay.
Her class notation is KRS1-Special purpose ship (Research vessel) PL10, DAT (-30 deg. C), HMS1, KRM1-UMA3, DPS2, NBS2.
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