HUGE ICEBERG
BEAUTY AT SUNRISE Eight days out from Capetown, ob ihe way to Australia, the course of tho steamer Quiloa, which reached Sydney to-day, was slightly altered to pass s huge iceberg. The ’berg, which the crew estimate! as about two miles long and 1500 feet bijjh, loomed out nf the early morning mist about three miles away, and a* the sun rose behind it, glistened with a pink lustre, which gradually changed to mauve and white as thc sun came further up. Sixty miles away the reflection of. the sun’s rays on the ice could still be , scon in the sky, flashing like a rower* f ul searchlight
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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