ICEBERG SIGHTED
UNUSUAL LATITUDE P.A. NAPIER, May 15. While crossing the Southern Indian Ocean on the voyage to New Zealand, members of the crew of the Condesa, which berthed at Napier yesterday, sighted a huge iceberg well to the ndrth of the usual latitudes for these “floating islands.” The iceberg was ■ sighted by the second officer, Mr C. Fenny, who described it as the largest he or any other member of the crew had ever seen. It was three miles long, one mile wide, and 300 feet high at the highest point. The last time an iceberg was seen in the more northern latitudes in the Indian Ocean was 1903.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26774, 18 May 1948, Page 6
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