noon
`` An iceberg ! '' said the Canadian to me . I knew that to Ned Land , as well as to all other navigators who had preceded us , this was an inevitable obstacle . The sun appearing for an instant at noon , Captain Nemo took an observation as near as possible , which gave our situation at 51 ° 30 ' long . and 67 ° 39 ' of S. lat . We had advanced one degree more in this Antarctic region . Of the liquid surface of the sea there was no longer a glimpse .