The final 15 passengers, including six Americans, were evacuated Wednesday from an Australian cruise ship that has been anchored off Uruguay’s coast for almost three weeks with more than half the people aboard infected with the new coronavirus at one point. The passengers were taken to Montevideo’s airport and boarded a charter flight to Miami. The Greg Mortimer departed March 15 on a voyage to Antarctica and South Georgia that was titled “In Shackleton’s Footsteps,” a reference to the polar explorer who led British expeditions to the region and died there in 1922.
