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I had to decide which category to list this one under, as it's technically all water, but it's frozen, so it's all solid ground, (if you walk softly)........

These icebergs are a little rarer than the common types usually seen in pictures. Referred to as "JadeBergs", I think the reason is fairly evident in their
colouring. They differ from the usual icebergs in that they consist of ice which is almost devoid of airbubbles, (which help to give normal bergs their blueish colour.)
Like the same sort of ice which comes out of the freezer, they are clear like glass, with stress cracks. They're produced by Antarctic "melt lakes" which occur in summer,
where the snow and blue ice, melt in to a wettish pool of ice and water in a depression on the ice plateau, or against nunataks "mountains" which poke through the ice sheet.
They then flow along with the ice sheet, much like rocks in a glacier, until they drop off the edge of the Antarctic coast into the ocean.

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Amazing shot. You can feel how cold it is. I would love to take a tour down to Antarctica. It would be a facinating place. Its good to see so many diffenent colours in one piece of ice so to speak!
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Facinating it is, and these bergs in the middle of winter don't get more surreal
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:omg: this is a gorgeous shot...the colors and textures of this berg are amazing. I can see why they are called Jade bergs :) I love the swirl of color on the right hand side...a jade berg rainbow

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One day i will convince my wife to take a cruise from Argentina down to Antartica. Its somewhere out of the ordinary. I just want to see them with my own eyes. They look so beautiful, graceful yet can be so lethal when you consider the Titanic!

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