Passage of the Ship "Medway" through Icebergs, on her homeward voyage from Melbourne, 1854. Creator: Unknown. Passage of the Ship "Medway" through Icebergs, on her homeward voyage from Melbourne, 1854. Creator: Unknown

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Passage of the Ship "Medway" through Icebergs, on her homeward voyage from Melbourne, 1854. Creator: Unknown. Passage of the Ship "Medway" through Icebergs, on her homeward voyage from Melbourne, 1854. Creator: Unknown

Passage of the Ship "Medway" through Icebergs, on her homeward voyage from Melbourne, 1854....some [icebergs were] a mile and a half in length and a mile in breadth...one berg...presented a remarkably picturesque appearance, like a colossal Gothic structure resting on the bosom of the ocean...it became necessary to proceed with great caution...The iceberg had so much the semblance of a ship under full sail, as to deceive more than one experienced eye...We had now passed through a thick cluster of icebergs, extending about 380 miles...the thermometer fell considerably...The imaginary islands to the southward of the Falklands, marked down in our charts as the Auroras, nowhere presented themselves...Immense masses of ice had been detached, and were floating in all directions around us...we passed one of the masses within a yard'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854

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