Saturday, August 14, 2010

Don't miss this: If you see a big iceberg, is that proof that CO2 is dangerous?

ABC News Watch: More Ice Islands
The Advertiser Friday 5 August 1892
LONDON, August 3.The barque Alice, from Auckland to New York, has arrived in port after aterrible voyage. She was locked whenrounding Cape Horn between a sheet of solid ice on her port side, while an iceberg 40 miles long and 400 ft. high occupied all the sea room to starboard. The Alice only escaped from this perilous position with great difficulty.

A HUGE ICEBERG.
The Brisbane Courier Wednesday 4 May 1870
This mass has received the various denominations of an immense iceberg, an ice island,' groote ijseland,' and a connected mass of icebergs. Its elevation in no case exceeded 300feet, but its horizontal dimensions were sixty miles by forty.
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