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Argentine glacier Perito Moreno about to break
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 07 - 07 - 2008


The southern Argentine glacier Perito Moreno
was set to fracture Monday, in a rare collapse during the winter in
the southern hemisphere, according to dpa.
Give the unusual timing for this spectacular natural phenomenon,
foreign tourists did not gather by the thousand in the area, as has
happened on other years.
It was mostly a local crowd who waited to see how the glacier - a
natural dike into the lake Lago Argentino, made of millions of tonnes
of ice - breaks in a deafening crash.
Despite the snow, the rain and very low temperatures, some 1,500
people travelled 80 kilometres on dirt roads from the town of El
Calafate to the glacier, inside the Glaciers National Park.
The glacier started to let water in on Friday, and a tunnel was
created through the ice whose roof was expected to collapse Monday.
The Perito Moreno, in the Argentine Patagonian province of Santa
Cruz, is one of the few still-growing glaciers in the world. In the
process, it dams up large masses of water. There is a difference of
up to 30 metres in altitude between water on the two sides of the ice
barrier, which can be up to 60 metres high itself.
Large blocks of ice have already collapsed in recent days, and the
definitive crash appeared imminent Monday, Argentine media reported.
Recent episodes of the phenomenon were to be seen in 2004 and
2006, when the ice barrier collapsed causing a huge avalanche of
water. The region, some 2,500 kilometres south-west of Buenos Aires,
is very thinly populated, and the phenomenon does not entail risks
for people or property.
The Perito Moreno last collapsed in winter in 1951.


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