Half the passengers rescued from a cruise ship which sank in the Antarctic are to spend a second night on a remote island after bad weather hampered efforts to fly them out, the ship's owners said today.
Tour company G.A.P. Adventures said planes sent to take the marooned passengers back to South America struggled to land on King George Island in the Antarctic Ocean.
Around 50 of the 100 passengers were scheduled to leave on a Chilean air force Hercules C130 transport plane at around 3.30pm British time.
They were scheduled to arrive in Punta Arenas, Chile, three hours later.
G.A.P. spokesman John Warner said: "The weather has not been great today and it means they will be doing one flight today and one flight tomorrow."
Weather permitting, the rest of the group - which has been put up in Chilean and Uruguayan military barracks - will fly back tomorrow.
He said it was not known if the 24 Britons and four Irish holidaymakers were among the first group.
PA