Iceberg, 19 km by 8 km, drifting towards Australia

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Iceberg, 19 km by 8 km, drifting towards Australia

Wednesday 9th December, 2009
(IANS)

An iceberg twice the size of Sydney Harbour is heading towards Western Australia, news reports said Wednesday.

The iceberg, known as B17B and measuring 19 km by 8 km, is drifting with the currents 1,700 km from Australia's west coast.

It was three times its current size when it broke off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in 2000 and Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young said it was one of the largest to be spotted so far north.

'It's one of the biggest sighted at those latitudes,' Young told Australian news agency AAP.

 

[longbow]

Wonder if the Australians could nudge it to areas of Australia where they can use the water. At the very least it would allow them to study if one can manouveur large icebergs and use them to extract water.

 

[Alamaking]

Will it reach Singapore? :p:p:p