HMS Protector comes across an iceberg of 11 miles long and five wide

Friday, March 8th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

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The Royal Navy’s Antarctic patrol ship encountered an iceberg the size of Bristol as she began her final scientific mission of the season. HMS Protector came across the enormous mass of ice and snow – 11 miles long and five wide – as she returned to the frozen continent for the last time this winter – or summer as it is in the Southern Hemisphere. Read full article

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Brit Bob
She was making for the sunken volcano on Deception Island after helping British Antarctic Survey scientists conduct geological work around Cape Melville in the South Shetland Islands – 500 miles from the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn – when she came across the mammoth berg...

South Shetland Islands - claimed by Argentina.

British Sub-Antarctica and Antarctic Islands – Argentinian Claims (2 pgs):-
https://www.academia.edu/38179055/British_Sub-Antarctica_and_Antarctic_Islands_Argentinian_Claims
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Capt Rockhopper
Has somebody iced over Malta?
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