A retired shipmaster who has had TiO years' experience, much of the 'time in the South Pacific, and is now settled ia Otago, gives if as his opinion, based on meteorological study nnd personal observation, that, the tioculinr weather which has been making this summer so unpleasant is due not to solar eccentricity, but to tho breaking up; of the immense South Polar pack-ice. As showing the magnitude to which detached ice can attain, he says that upon one voyage he sailed past a berg that was 75 "miles long.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16975, 5 March 1926, Page 5
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