In 1978, Dick Smith towed a fake “Antarctic iceberg” into Sydney Harbour; then rain exposed the foam-covered barge

On the morning of 1 April, 1978, Sydneysiders gathered along the foreshore in disbelief as they watched what appeared to be a giant iceberg drift through Sydney Heads toward the Opera House. The floating berg seemed to confirm months of publicity surrounding entrepreneur and adventurer Dick Smith’s proposal to tow an iceberg from Antarctica to Australia as a potential freshwater reservoir.

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