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Tuesday August 17 1:44 PM ET

Giant Iceberg Threatens Shipping

WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Ice Center issued a warning Tuesday that an iceberg almost the size of Rhode Island threatens shipping in the ocean between South America and Antarctica.

The iceberg, named B-10A, measures 24 by 48 miles and is in the shipping lanes in the vicinity of latitude 58 degrees, 36 minutes South, longitude 57 degrees West.

The iceberg is drifting southeast at about 7 to 9 miles per day, and smaller icebergs are breaking off as it moves into relatively warmer water.

A cautionary zone has been established 165 miles in radius around the berg, the ice center reported.

The ice center has been tracking the parent iceberg, B-10, since January 1992. In the summer of 1995 it broke into two pieces, the larger of which became B-10A. The smaller iceberg drifted west in and along the Antarctic ice pack and eventually became too small to warrant tracking.

The Suitland, Md.-based National Ice Center provides worldwide operational sea ice analyses. It is operated by the Navy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Coast Guard.

-- Stan Faryna (info@giglobal.com), August 18, 1999

Answers

Stan, This is not good as it is a sign that maybe the Antarctic ice floes are breaking up. This means--good-bye East Coast/Wet Coast and Florida,among other otherwise nice places. See you Saturday...

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), August 18, 1999.

This looks to be pretty far south (and moving further south)...well below Cape Horn. It shouldn't be too much of a problem to shipping (Most goes through the Panama canal).

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), August 18, 1999.

We need an ingenious invention to buzz the iceberg into the world's biggest snow cone.

Launch rockets filled with syrup extract to detonate inside.

Then reroute all cruise ships to stop and get free tasty iceberg snow cones!

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), August 18, 1999.

Iceberg meets GPS rollover

-- titanic (chunk@cold.thaw), August 21, 1999.