Vic: Polar explorers' tracking beacon resumes signals
After eight days on the blink, the tracking beacon carried by two Australians trekkingto the North Pole has resumed sending signals.
The signals resumed more than three days after the trekkers' support team, fearingthe worst, sent a Russian supply plane to search for Victorians JON MUIR and ERIC PHILIPS.
The polar explorers are attempting to become the first Australians to trek unassistedto the North Pole.
The search plane spotted them last Friday and support teams were in the throes of decidingwhether to drop the pair a replacement beacon, which could have destroyed the unassistedstatus of their expedition.
Trek spokesman SIMON BUCKLEY says the Argos tracking beacon kicked in yesterday, revealingthe adventurers are on the move again.
When last sighted, Mr MUIR and Mr PHILIPS were camped by a large polynia -- an unfrozenopen lake in the ice.
Mr BUCKLEY says the pair are now sledding north averaging about 20 kilometres a day.
They're expected to complete their 1,000-kilometre trek to the North Pole in about55 days, when they've completed the remaining 440 kilometres.
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