I can't quit gazing at this iceberg that floated by Newfoundland in 2017. I'm sure as icebergs go it's not that huge, but when it's close to an inhabited shore it's startling.
The suffix "berg" originally meant "mountain". If floating chunks of ice were routinely the size of boulders we'd have learned to call them "icesteens" or something.
Even as a small mountain, that one would be dramatic, with its sheer sides. It would be a stunner to have it pop into view one day, instead of having been there since you were born, like having a giant UFO land, or Godzilla rear up.
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The suffix "berg" originally meant "mountain". If floating chunks of ice were routinely the size of boulders we'd have learned to call them "icesteens" or something.
Even as a small mountain, that one would be dramatic, with its sheer sides. It would be a stunner to have it pop into view one day, instead of having been there since you were born, like having a giant UFO land, or Godzilla rear up.
From the sea of sky blue iceberg--Hamms
Oh, wait....
Eric Hines
All kinds of stuff underneath Antarctica's ice.
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