Ocean hazards

Usage examples of icebergs.

A violent storm took the Gauss by surprise, collected a mass of icebergs around her, and filled up the intervening space with floes, so that there could be no question of making any way.

A coast full of submerged reefs and a sea strewn with icebergs was what the Frenchmen had to contend with.

From the time when we had to reckon with any likelihood of meeting icebergs, the temperature of the water was also taken every two hours during the night.

The number of icebergs increased during the afternoon and night, and with such neighbours it suited us very well to have daylight all through the twenty-four hours, as we now had.

The sight that then met us was the lofty Barrier to starboard, and elsewhere all round about some fifty icebergs, great and small.

This was formed by over a hundred icebergs, many of which lay in contact with each other and had packed the ice close together.

A part of this fresh water is also acquired by the sea in the form of icebergs from the Antarctic Continent.

She started to close her eyes On the way up, but as she looked out at the other boats in the soft pink light of the dawn, all she could see was a sea of ice, dotted by tiny icebergs, and here and there, a lifeboat, full of people, anxiously waiting to be rescued.

Gorgeous in purple and green, in shadowy blue and flashing gold, it seemed to Malcolm, as if at any moment the ever newborn Anadyomene might lift her shining head from the wandering floor, and float away in her pearly lustre to gladden the regions where the glaciers glide seawards in irresistible silence, there to give birth to the icebergs in tumult and thunderous uproar.

But even as he spoke, Proteus recalled the improved progress of the ship when he was rowing, his tireless muscles, his easy swim through freezing water under icebergs, his consistent success at catching fish.

Something perhaps worse than icebergs which herd ships into the waiting caldrons of maneaters.

Our voyage on to Quebec had the usual changes of weather: hot sun, cold winds, snow, hail, icebergs, and gales of wind, and, when nearing Belle Isle, dense fog, inducing our able, but prudent, captain to stop his engines till daylight, when was sighted a wall of ice across our track at no great distance.

There were no natural icebergs, since there were no islands or continents to build successive snowfalls up into glaciers.

I suppose those people you mentioned who tried to build and sell icebergs probably did.

Hence we may safely infer that icebergs formerly landed their rocky burthens on the shores of these mid-ocean islands, and it is at least possible that they may have brought thither the seeds of northern plants.