This award to the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat is for the hire of the icebreaker ODEN for breaking an ice channel to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. This activity is supported through a special agreement between the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, the Swedish Research Council and the National Science Foundation for "Cooperative Research and Logistical Activities in Antarctica."
This award of $1,730,000 provides the estimated first funding for the initial mobilization of the ODEN from Sweden to the McMurdo Station ice edge.
