ICEBERG NEAR DUNEDIN

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1931, Page 3

ICEBERG NEAR DUNEDIN

NORTH OF “THE NUGGETS.”

(Ily Telegraph—Per Press Association)

DUNEDIN, June 28

Jt was reported to the police and th© telegraph officials to-day by Mr A. C. Armstrong, of Anderson’s Bay, that at 11 o’clock this nipniing, be sighted an iceberg due south of Dunedin, and apparently slightly north of The Nuggets, where it would he in the track of shipping. Air Armstrong described the berg, which be first saw with th© naked eye., and later through a pair of field glasses, as being equal in size to the Kxprcss Company’s Offices, one of the largest Imidlings in Dunedin, and as of a, pinkish hue with the sun on it.

Mr Armstrong’s statement is supported by two other persons, who viewed the berg through glasses, and also gains support from the fact that a heavy, snowfall was experienced in Dunedin to-night. The apeparance of this iceberg so far north is entirely unprecedented. Shipping men state that an iceberg has never before been observed from the New Zealand coast.

The light-keeper at The Nuggets did not observe the berg, hut he said it was possible that the berg had pa sod during tlie night and disappeared round one of the headlands of the coast.