“A wristwatch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy more than 1,800 miles away after it floated ashore on the Faeroe Islands … Hjalmar Hatun, an oceanographer with the Faeroese Fisheries Laboratory, said the watch likely drifted south with one of the chunks of ice that frequently break away at the North Pole and are carried off by ocean currents.”

From the Boston Globe, here. Via the ever-fascinating Boing Boing, here.

Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2007 @ 7:58 pm
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