Australia is looking to the US and China for help after discovering damage to the national icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which remains stuck on Antarctic rocks in gale-force winds with 68 people aboard. The crew found the hull of the ship had been breached, flooding water into an area used for ballast water. The Australian Antarctic Division said there was no risk to the icebreaker's stability, or of it leaking fuel. The ship ran aground in Horseshoe Harbour at Mawson research station on Wednesday after its moorings broke in winds that reached 176km/h. Division director Nick Gales said those on board were safe but the ship had listed slightly. Contingencies include redirecting a Chinese icebreaker to Mawson. The US has stepped in to help more than 30 expeditioners at Davis station who had been waiting on the Aurora Australis to pick them up for the return trip to Tasmania. The US has offered to fly them from Davis to Casey, where they will meet the division's A319 airbus. Adam Morton 
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