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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (5048)	5/20/2005 11:04:40 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) of 36921

Antarctica scientists get big ice cube delivery Thu May 19, 1:12 PM ET The last thing Australian scientists in Antarctica need is a lifetime supply of ice cubes. But an iceberg more than twice the size of Malta has ground to a halt near an Australian outpost on the frozen continent, blotting out much of the horizon. The 50 km-long (31 mile) iceberg is part of a bigger iceberg that broke apart from the Ross Ice Shelf more than five years ago, the Australian Antarctic Division said. The iceberg, big enough to make 15 thousand million ice cubes, has drifted more than a thousand km (620 miles) in recent months to Australia's remote Casey Station, a 16-building encampment opened in 1959 to conduct research. Station leader Jeremy Smith said the iceberg was clearly visible as a long ice cliff stretching across the horizon. "But often it is sulking in shadow and difficult to distinguish from the sky in the background," he said in a statement. In time it is expected to continue its westward drift around the continent, Smith said. There was no known impact on wildlife in the area, he said.

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