Ann Wroe
speaker
865 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ice returned to water.
Water to the ocean.
That is the way of ice.
Nothing would remain but water.
That is the way of ice.
Fresh water poured into salt water and each absorbed the other.
Some observers thought they saw a bluer tinge in the ocean round about.
In its dying months, the iceberg A23A carried parallel blue lines of meltwater on its scarred surface.
Each represented a crack that would soon gape wider.
It drifted at about 30 kilometres a day in runnels of its own blood.
As other icebergs had grown or decayed, it became the biggest iceberg in the world.
It weighed, at a brave estimate, about a trillion tonnes.
It was the size of two Greater Londons.
But it was not a towering, massive monster.
It was a table of snow.
Its great flat whiteness filled the horizon from east to west.
It broke off or carved.
in 1986 from the Filchner ice shelf.
There were two siblings as well, and all three of them were so vast that they sank to the bottom of the sea.
The younger two went up to more tepid water and melted away.
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