Australian expeditioner evacuated from Antarctica in five-day mission.

ISLAMABAD -- An Australian expeditioner has been medically evacuated from Antarctica following a five-day mission involving ships, helicopters and planes.

Australia, China and the US collaborated in efforts to bring the patient back home.

The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) hailed the "outstanding success" of an operation it described as "complex and challenging".

Details of the patient's condition were not made public.

Officials said it was not related to corona virus.

The expeditioner was at Australia's Davis research station in east Antarctica when the...

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