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Nature 427, 593 (12 February 2004) | doi:10.1038/427593a
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At the close of the long frost in February, 1895, strange phenomena occurred in connection with Lough Neagh, in the north of Ireland... The lake had been frozen over for a fortnight, and thousands of people had indulged in skating on ice almost as smooth as glass. On February 22, the last day but one of the skating, though unknown to the multitudes gathered near Antrim, the ice in the central portion of the bay broke up, but left intact a sheet of about a third of a mile wide along the south-eastern shore.
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