BUT NO CHAMPAGNE.

North Otago Times, 1 November 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

BUT NO CHAMPAGNE.

The largest mass of ice in the world is probably the one which fiills up nearly the whole of the interior of (Ireenland, where it lias accumulated since before the dawn of history.

]t is believed now to form a block (500,(100 sipiare miles in area, and averaging a a half in thickness. According to these statistics, the lump of ice is larger in volume than the whole body of water in the "Mediterranean ; and there is enough of it- to cover the whole of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with a layer about seven miles thick.