Rare Icebergs Spotted off New Zealand- 6 Jan 2005 CBC News - Icebergs measuring up to three kilometers (1.8 miles) wide have been sighted about 700 kilometers (420 miles) off New Zealand’s South Island,prompting a warning to shipping in the region. It’s the first time icebergs have been spotted in local waters in more than half a century. (Thanks to “Bluedog” in New Zealand for this info.) http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/01/06/icebergs-newzealand0501 06.html
24 posted on 02/25/2005 4:25:34 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
Aren't these icebergs from the recent shelf breakage, and then the Rhode Island size berg crashed back into the next section of shelf, fracturing it into calves each several miles across, and numbering in the 100's?????
59 posted on 02/25/2005 5:24:35 PM PST by UCANSEE2