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While eating dinner today this hunk of ice, known as a “bergy bit”, floated past the window of the mess causing a lot of excitement. It’s not big enough to be classed as an iceberg – for that it needs to be between 5-15 m tall and 15-16 m long before it is a small iceberg. 

 

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[Photo: Arne Pallentin, NIWA]