1923 : Arctic Melt Removed 70 Feet Of Glacial Ice

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1. Gator says:

   August 14, 2011 at 3:21 pm

   A rock deserving of a name.

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2. Blade says:

   August 15, 2011 at 11:37 am

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   The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) Monday 3 September 1923

   THAWING IN ARCTIC.

   DISCOVERY OF ISLAND.

   PREVIOUSLY ICE BURIED.

   CHRISTIANIA, September 1

   The Norwegian, Captain Wiktor Arnesen, who has just returned from the Arctic, claims to have discovered an island 12 miles in circumference near the Franz Joseph Island, in latitude 80.40. He says that the island previously was hidden by an iceberg between 70 and 80 feet high, which has melted, showing the exceptional nature of the recent thawing in the Arctic.

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