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My goodness, how time floats

A day�s beachcombing turned up an incredibly valuable � and most unlikely � treasure for a young boy in the Faroe Islands. By Jan M Olsen.

Call it a message in a bottle for an age of melting ice caps. When polar explorer Joergen Amundsen buried a wristwatch under the icy wastes of the Arctic, he could not have expected it to go on its own incredible journey.