ICEBERG SIGHTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20911, 29 June 1931, Page 8

ICEBERG SIGHTED.

SOUTH OF DUNEDIN. UNPRECEDENTED OCCURRENCE. A DANGER TO SHIPPING. [BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIAIION.] DUNEDIN, Sunday. It was reported to the police and tele* graph officials to-day by Mr. A. C. Armstrong, of Anderson's Bay, that at 11 o'clock this morning he sighted an iceberg duo south of Dunedin, and apparently slightly north, of the Nuggets, where it would be in the track of shipping. He described the iceberg, which he first saw with the naked eye, and later through a pair of field glasses, as equal in size to the Express Company's offices, one of the largest buildings in .Dunedin. It was of pinkish hue with the sun on it, Mr. Armstrong's statement is supported by two other persons who viewed the iceberg through glasses and also gains support from the fact that a heavy snowfall was experienced in Dunedin to-night. The appearance of an iceberg so far north is unprecedented, and shipping men stat« that one has never before been observed from the New Zealand coast, lhe lightkeeper at the Nuggets did not observe it, but said it was possible that the iceberg had passed during the night and disappeared round one of the headlands of the coast.