A seriously ill man, who suffered a medical emergency at a remote Antarctic base over two weeks ago, reached an Australian hospital on Friday.

In a statement, the Australian Antarctic Division said that the patient was taken to a hospital in Hobart, Australia's mostly southerly city, following a journey of an icebreaker 4,800 kilometers (3,000 miles) through rough and ice-jammed seas from Australia's Davis Station on the coast of Princess Elizabeth Land.

According to the division's chief medical officer Jeff Ayton, the patient, through ambulance, was transferred from the icebreaker, Aurora Australis, to the Royal Hobart Hospital. He remained there in a serious but stable condition.

Ayton, in a statement, said, “He will require ongoing medical treatment, but we are very pleased he has traveled well over the past couple of weeks and his condition has not deteriorated”.

So far, no personal details about the man have been released by the authorities. They have not mentioned anything about the nature of his medical emergency. They have just said that it was not the result of an accident.

In November, the man, who is a tradesman, went to Australian base and would have spent the approaching southern winter there. But, he got ill on March 18 a few days after the Aurora Australis had resupplied the station and started its voyage back to Hobart.

The statement said that when the icebreaker came back to the station, officials remained there to wait for a break in snow showers. They did it, so that the patient could be flown across sea ice on March 22.

As per the statement, the ship's doctor with the help of distant specialists used telecommunications equipment designed for remote medical examinations, and took care of the patient.