TGIF: Iceberg sails past New Zealand (2006)

By Dr. M, on March 28th, 2008 2 comments   Pictures and Movies   Antarctica, climate change, glacier, iceberg, sea ice  

New Zealanders impress me at nearly every turn. I mean, when was the last time your local news station sent out a reporter by helicopter to land on an Antarctic iceberg floating by offshore? The guys in this video are from the Otago Daily Times. One of the intrepid chaps sums it up nicely,… “all my life I wanted to go to the Antarctic, now the Antarctic’s come to me.”

2 comments to TGIF: Iceberg sails past New Zealand (2006)

• Ian

  March 28, 2008 at 08:22 · Reply

  Can I say “That’s too cool” without sounding awfully pun-y?!

• John McKay

  March 28, 2008 at 15:17 · Reply

  I just attached this to the wrong post. Let’s try again.

  When I was a teenager in Alaska, ice on the neighboring body of sea was not news worthy enough for the local stations to comment on it, but they did once send out the copters to cover the rescue of two of my friends who were busy drifting out to sea on an ice floe.