Friday, November 03, 2006
Huge Icebergs
Near New Zealand
An armada of about 100 icebergs was just a few hundred kilometers from Southland last night, prompting warnings for shipping and raising the remote prospect of the first iceberg sighting from the mainland in decades.
The surprised Whenuapai-based crew of an Air Force Orion, on a routine southern patrol looking for illegal fishing, spotted the first of the icebergs about 260km south of Invercargill late yesterday morning.
The frigid flotilla was split into two groups of about 50 icebergs. One group stretched about 185km south, and the other was concentrated in a chunky, icy mass about 37km wide.
Air Force spokesman Squadron leader Glenn Davis said the largest iceberg was about 1.8km long, 1.3km wide, and towered about 120m above the choppy waters. Given 90 percent of an iceberg is underwater, that meant the largest was 1.2km high.
The icebergs were north-east of the Auckland Islands and south-east of Stewart Island, and were drifting slowly towards south-east New Zealand, Squadron Leader Davis said.
"It is not unexpected to see icebergs at this time of year, but the crew were slightly surprised to see them where they are now," Squadron Leader Davis said.
And we're still not sure about Global Warming????????
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Well just think its going to start getting way worse becaise it is also the natural time for the earth to have a expand.Be safe walk in peace allways .I persionaly pray we all humans have not messed up the natural order so bad nothing servives.
The abuse of our earth is turning it into an enemy against us as it fails. Who would think man could "progress" to the point where he could destroy his own world.
Our lack of regard for the delicate balance of our habitat within which we are able to live parallels the US' and other consumer cultures inability or unwillingness to live within their own borders with self-righteous exploitation of the land and other cultures. We have got to quit seeing civilization as a growth enterprize and learn to live in balance with the bounty that we already are blessed with.
