How a giant iceberg travelled from Alaska to Iowa in 1977 for Saudi Arabia’s ambitious plan to turn Antarctic icebergs into a freshwater source | World News
In the autumn of 1977, visitors arriving in Ames, Iowa, encountered something they would never have expected to see in the American Midwest: a massive iceberg sitting inside a refrigerated room at Iowa State University. It had travelled thousands of kilometres from Alaska by helicopter, aircraft and truck, not as a scientific curiosity but as…
