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blocking - getting bits of ice berg to melt for fresh water
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©Copyright W. Townsend - picture taken 1963
When fresh water was in particularly short supply and there wasn't enough snow for snow-blocking, brash ice blown into the cove would have to be relied on as a source of fresh water.
Depending on the size of the bits, this could be difficult and hard work or very difficult and very hard work. Big heavy pieces of ice had to be picked up form where they were floating in the sea and carried onshore to the melt tank. Think of this the next time you complain about your water bill.
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| This picture is one of a collection assembled in
2007 on
the 60th anniversary of Signy Island
Base: 60°43'S 045°36'W. Thank you to those who sent their treasured memories of their time in
Antarctica and allowed them to be made into a commemorative cd
and then placed here on the web. My commentary is taken from notes I was sent with the pictures if any. Corrections or additions, please The reunion weekend was 14-16 September 2007. |
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