NO ICE IN ICELAND
MILD WEATHER CAUSES SHORTAGE
Purveyors of coals to Newcastle are requested to turn their attention to this part of the world. There is a shortage of ice in Iceland! As a rule ice is one commodity that this country never bothers about. In the summer, when the southern part of Iceland has run out of supplies, fishing boats take a run up north and get what they need from the ice houses that line the coast. There is always plenty. In the spring the ice house owners simply detach part of the scenery and push it indoors. But this year there was a mild winter. Iceland had no ice. The ice house proprietors waited until April aud then suddenly awoke to the fact that spring was coining and Boreas had not obliged. April, -with customary perverseness, provided the country with the first real snowstorm of the year. Thin sheets of ice formed and the ice men dashed out to fill their houses. But one storm wasn’t enough, and now the ice houses are empty and Iceland has no ice. Even the Langaness district, which touches the Arctic circle, is iceless.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 29
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194NO ICE IN ICELAND Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 29
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