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Friday, September 04, 2009

Weeping Glacier



From the UK online newspaper website MailOnline.

At first glimpse it looks like any other glacier you might find in the freezing Arctic wastes of Norway.

But on closer inspection an eerie face is depicted in the melting ice wall that appears to be crying a river of tears.

The forlorn-looking 'Mother Nature' figure appeared to locals during a thaw, with the melting ice and snow falling towards the sea below.

The striking image of the Austfonna ice cap, located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago, would seem certain to be heavily used by environmentalists protesting against climate change.

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5 comments:

Fusion said...

Eerie to be sure. I thought it was photoshopped at first, but it's not.

~Tim said...

freaky cool!

Anonymous said...

Wow!!!

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