Boy finds watch after it floats some 2,900 km from North Pole

A late gift from Santa?

clipped from www.cbc.ca COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A wristwatch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy some 2,900 kilometres away after it floated ashore on the Faeroe Islands. Niels Jakup Mortensen, 11, spotted a black box near his home on Suduroy, the Faeroes' southernmost island was a watch that had been buried at the North Pole by Joergen Amundsen, a descendant of Norwegian polar explo rer Roald Amundsen. Jacobsen said the watch, discovered by her son earlier this month, was still working, and was accompanied by a letter from Joergen Amundsen. "It was so unbelievable," she said. "It had been buried in the North Pole." Hjalmar Hatun, an oceanographer with the Faeroese Fisheries Laboratory, said the watch likely drifted south with one of the chunks of ice that frequently break away at the North Pole The Faeroes, an 18-island Danish territory, are located halfway between Scotland and Iceland. Hatun said the ice breaking off is not related to global warming