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[PHOTOS] Giant Natural Snowballs As Big As Basketballs Discovered On Remote Beach

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09-11-2016 | 09:19

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[PHOTOS] Giant Natural Snowballs As Big As Basketballs Discovered On Remote Beach

An enormous collection of giant snowballs - made by nature- have suddenly appeared on the Arctic coast of Siberia.

The balls described as 'white cannonballs' by one local newspaper, were discovered on a beach around the remote village of Nyda in the Gulf of Ob.

They vary in different sizes from the size of a tennis ball to basketballs and the perfect snowman's head.

They may look man made but the snowballs have been formed by an entirely natural and extremely rare natural phenomenon.

Some locals have even posed for photos sitting on the sea of snowballs which stretch along the beach.

The Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) spokesman Sergey Lisenkov said the snowballs form in the waves under certain climatic conditions.

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