# Lowest and Highest latitude where an Iceberg has been observed
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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 3, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lowest-and-highest-latitude-where-an-iceberg-has-been-observed/645939 "2013-01-03T10:47:20Z")
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### Author:  [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lowest-and-highest-latitude-where-an-iceberg-has-been-observed/645939/1 "2013-01-03T10:47:20Z")
Titanic’s iceberg was at below 50N IIRC. How low has ice been observed in the Northern hemisphere and how high in the Southern Hemiphere?
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lowest-and-highest-latitude-where-an-iceberg-has-been-observed/645939/2 "2013-01-03T12:12:19Z")
Titanic hit the berg well below 50N - more like 41N.
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> During a typical season, icebergs can migrate as far south as 39N across the Grand Banks. The farthest south an iceberg has been spotted was in 1926 near 30-20N/62-32W, approximately 150nm northeast of Bermuda.
> **[Icebergs across the North Atlantic](https://www.marinelink.com/news/icebergs-atlantic-across334857.aspx)**
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> From the first voyages across the North Atlantic, icebergs have been a major threat to shipping interests. The most famous disaster…
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> In 1894, the vessel Dochra reported an iceberg at 26.50 degrees south; this remains the farthest north report of any Antarctic ice.
> **[Nothing new](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/3574468/Nothing-new.html)**