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Iceberg in rainbow colours
last update: Mar 19, 2008 01:40 PM
Icebergs are white, or at least some shades of white and grey right ?! Wrong ! A Norwegian sailor did not believe his eyes when he spotted this "rainbow" iceberg.
Candy Iceberg - Oyvind Tangen
Oyvind Tangen, who is on board the research ship "G O Sars" photographed this unusual iceberg in Antarctic waters.
The colouring is probably due to algae growing in the ice and sediments from the ice sheets. Sometimes, when air bubbles are squeezed out due to the rapid melting and re-freezing of the ice, deep blue lines appear.
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