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So they are heading for NZ. Whats the closest an iceberg's got to the UK in recent times? 100miles, 1,000 miles?
A long way, there are no currents that would carry them in our direction
I saw an iceberg in ASDA the other day in the veg isle 😉
Find the location of the Titanic. About there.
I like to fill the bath with icecubes and play titanic with my rubber boat 🙂
define "recent"
in geological terms, "recently" there was an ice sheet covering most of northern Britain. I would expect one or two bergs to have calved from that lot
Pop down to just below Swindon/above Marlborough (M4) there's a pile of boulders indicating where the glaciers called it a day (*sometime ago) (on a nice bike route as well)
Ah, you'll be talking about Fyfield Down, then. Sustrans Route 403 goes through it towards Marlborough from Avebury. That's where all the Avebury stones got dragged from. Fun to imagine looking north from Chippenham straight at a mile high ice sheet.
I think they've been spotted from the Magnus oil rig about 160 miles north of Shetland. Never saw one when I was there but some of 'locals' said they'd seen them in winter.
Well the old cast iron railway bridge over the Solway Firth near Bowness on Solway was in a pretty poor condition but was finally rendered usless by an iceberg hitting it. I think that was about 80 years or so ago.
True story.
Man: 'Doctor, Doctor I have a lettuce growing out of my bottom'
Dr: 'Bend over and I'll take a look. Ah, yes I can see a small leaf'
Man: 'That's just the tip of the iceberg'
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