aha
very nice
another lost chunk of everyones ice
both fletcher & his melting island are believed to
have retired in 1983
when he reportedly predicted she would soon drift out
of the arctic & into the north atlantic to finally
melt away there
& she is believed to have done exactly as he expected
having been last reported in fram strait at the head
of greenland basin
per
http://www.qsl.net/kg0yh/ice.htm
http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/history/history_usdrift.html
--- Lucas <
lucas_v1@...> wrote:
> Dear members,
>
> Here is something which I couldn't find one mention
> of using the
> search engine. If you already talked about it, then
> sorry:
>
> This is a quotation from Hillier, Tim: Sourcebook on
> Public
> International Law; London: Cavendish, 1998 at pp.
> 265 ftnote 51:
>
> "There actually was a floating island. Fletcher Ice
> Island (T-3) is
> 99% ice, seven miles wide, four miles across, and
> 100 feet thick. No
> mere iceberg. It was sighted by an American in 1947,
> and has been
> occupied by the US since 1952. Fletcher Ice Island
> meanders around
> the Arctic Ocean. In 1961, for example, it was
> grounded on the
> Alaskan coastline near Point arrow. In 1970, it was
> in the Baffin
> Sea, 305 miles from Greenland (Denmark) and 200
> miles from Ellesmere
> Islnd (Canada). That year, Mario Jaime Escamilla was
> convicted of
> involuntary manslaughter in a US Federal Court for
> the shooting death
> of Bennie Lightsey while both were on Fletcher Ice
> Island. Bizarrely,
> the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case
> on procedural
> grounds, after first noting that it was 'unable to
> decide' the
> jurisdictional issue. United States v Escamilla 467
> F 2d 341, 344
> (4th Cir 1972). That is to say: in the only recorded
> case of a
> floating island, the court was unable to endorse the
> 'floating
> island' theory as a basis for jurisdiction."
>
> Now, my question is: where would this island be
> strolling right now
> and if any other incident concerning it has been
> more recently
> reported...
>
> Lucas
>
>
>
>
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