GIGANTIC ICEBERGS
SOME WEIGH 2,000 MILLION TONS
Nothing that man can make can compare with icebergs which now come floating down from the Arctic, states “The Children’s Newspaper.” The Great Pyramid of Egypt is a gigantic work and contains about six million tons of material; but many an iceberg contains two thousand million tons, or enough to make 333 Great Pyramids. Icebergs have been seen that towered 300 feet or more into the air, yet only about a ninth is above water, so that such an iceberg must measure more than one and a half .miles from bottom to top. Some of them are more than a century old.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 61, 10 April 1946, Page 6
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109GIGANTIC ICEBERGS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 61, 10 April 1946, Page 6
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