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Drone captures amazing footage of huge spinning ice circle caught in a river’s flow

Jan 17, 2019 by John Aldred 1 Comment

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Nature can often present us with some rather wonderful and rare sights. Sights such as spinning ice circles in slow-moving rivers. One particularly giant and impressive example popped up in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine recently.

Fortunately for those of us who live nowhere near Maine, Todd McKee, founder of Bulldog Aerials, managed to capture some beautiful footage of the formation so that the rest of us could take a peek.

Ice circles are an unusual occurrence forming on the outer bends in rivers where water creates a force called “rotational shear”. A chunk or chunks of the ice and then twists around. As the chunk of ice starts to spin with the current of the water, it grinds along its edge, ultimately smoothing itself into a near perfect circle. In this case, that ice circle had a diameter of almost 90 metres (300ft).

Looking at the size of it in the videos, it absolutely dwarfs the buildings that flank it on either side of the river, and it’s a very impressive view. The rotation of this ice circle is barely perceptible until the video goes into timelapse mode, and then the spin becomes quite obvious.

It’s amusing to watch the birds flying from one part of it to another as it continues to spin around.

Ice circles are most frequently seen in Scandinavia and North America. But occasionally they can pop up elsewhere, too. One was observed in Wales in December 2008 and another in England in January 2009.

This one, though, by quite a clear margin, appears to be the biggest ever reported. The previous known record was a 160-foot ice circle found in 1987 in Pite River, Sweden.

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About John Aldred

John Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.

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