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I'm republishing this picture because the first version was oversharpen.

Previous note:
View from one the belvédère's lowest catwalk of the Perito Merino. This part of the Moreno is the contact zone between the glacier and the peninsula. As I've already explain in the note from one of my previous picture posted some times ago, it is there that the ice slow down or totally block the outflow of the water and raise the water level of the Brazo Rico. Off course, these raise would cause important floodings that would submerge the properties of Estancias (ranches) settled around the Rico arm. In 1939, during an important flooding, the Argentine Navy sent two planes to bombed the icy contact zone without success. The water continued raising. Following this try, several other solutions, one more impracticable from the other, are proposed. One of this solution was to tint the ice in black to accelerate the melting by the absortion of solar rays. This method has been tested by Russians on Tibetans glaciers. But after complicate calculation, they realised that it will take not less then four years for the ice to melt. Somebody went through the trouble to calculate the amount oil necessary to burn the ice tongue; 2 700 tons. Any of the human solution were possible and finally, it was nature itself who fied the problem by freeing the channel as it did the previous years. Another lesson from mother nature, but even today human doesn't seems to understand.