Helicopter company hopes iceberg comes closer

The director of a helicopter company that made sightseeing flights to icebergs off Otago in 2006, hopes another iceberg now in the Southern Ocean moves closer to New Zealand. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research says the 500m-long iceberg is floating near Macquarie Island about 1000km southwest of New Zealand. Helicopters Otago managing director Graeme Gale says people flocked from Australia and Norway to see the icebergs three years ago. Mr Gale says the iceberg will need to be within 150km of the New Zealand coast for a helicopter to reach it.
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