Mar 27 2008
Large tabular iceberg
There has been a lot of iceberg-posts recently, but this may be the last. The crew and the scientists on board the Norwegian research vessel “G.O.Sars” have now finished the survey. Sailing in the Antarctic ocean was an unique adventure for everyone who participated. Rare birds, whales and icebergs where stored in their minds and on memory cards. After passing the (now famous) marbled iceberg, the crew saw a large iceberg in the horizon. Photos: Leif Nøttestad.
It was a large tabular iceberg. A tabular iceberg (or tabletop iceberg) is an iceberg, with a flat, table-like surface. The one seen on this post is probably 400-500 meters long. Though it is large, it is far from the largest tabular iceberg seen in the Antarctic Ocean.
It is hard to estimate the seize of such an iceberg when seen from a distance. It is like a floating island (here seen with a wandering albatross in the foreground). Knowing that only one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg is above water, it is hard to comprehend the amount of ice stored in this iceberg.
While some icebergs are large and impressive, others are small. Like works of art they decorate the surface in the Antarctic Ocean…
Photo: Øyvind Tangen
The tabletop iceberg is very cool – do you think there is a way to harness the ice in these for potable water (because they’re made of fresh water, right?)
Incredible iceberg photos.
i think there are companies that will go out and drag them back to land and make drinking water out of them, it’s apparently very pure. The following website is an example http://www.perc.org/perc.php?id=81
Wow! Fantastic shots. I never knew that icebergs are pure enough for drinking.
Great pictures again Magnus.
But anymore of these and you’ll have to call your site abergblog.com
Good idea to put your blog name on the pictures – they’ll get copied on other blogs no doubt!
Thank you all for comments. Yes, Neil. I have seen pictures from my blog being “stolen” by others. Not much to do about it…
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