SEATTLE – What is the clearest natural water in the world? And what about those piercing-cyan-blue beaches at vacation spots around the world: “It’s like a screensaver!” says Jon Favreau’s character Joey in Couple’s Retreat. We’re going to look at the world’s clearest water beach.
Countless blue-clear beaches around the world provide incredible opportunities to snorkel or scuba and take in the baffling grandeur of what’s just below the surface—or just taking in the sun, sipping expensive fruit-decorated drinks, and reading your Kindle (or paperback) in a chair. Either way, the view will be amazing.
The aerial photographs of Rotomairewhenua (Blue Lake) on New Zealand’s South Island are indeed stunning. These pictures show Blue Lake does have a small patch of sand road leading up to it. The rest of the water’s perimeter is cobbles or a hard break into the forest. Because of accommodations for local indigenous peoples, no swimming is allowed.
Putting this further into perspective, the colossal ice block is three times larger than New York City.
The iceberg broke off from the Filchner Ice Shelf in August 1986 but became stuck on the ocean floor following its initial breakaway.
“It started moving minutely in 2020, but as you can see from the time-lapse, it started picking up speed in early 2022,” Em Newton, a digital communications officer for the BAS, told Fox News.
Recent satellite images show the iceberg, which once hosted a Soviet research station, is now drifting quickly past the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, aided by strong winds and currents.
To watch a video of the iceberg breaking up, click on MSN
