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World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks free, heads Toward Southern Ocean

11/25/2023 - By Gloria Dickie. The world's largest iceberg is on the move for the first time in more than three decades, scientists said on Friday. At almost 4,000 square km (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called A23a is roughly three times the size of New York City. Since calving off… SEE MORE

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Huge Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf

2/9/2023 - By gcaptain.com [caption id="attachment_44688" align="alignnone" width="634"] Iceberg_with_hole_near_sanderson_hope_2007-07-28_1 via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] An iceberg the size of metro London has broken off of Antarctica’s Brunt Ice shelf. The calving event was confirmed Monday by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) which first detected growing cracks in the 150-meter-thick ice shelf about a decade… SEE MORE

World’s Largest Iceberg Just Broke Off an Antarctic Ice Shelf

5/25/2021 - By NBCNewYork.com An enormous chunk of ice bigger than Rhode Island has broken off an Antarctic ice shelf, according to the European Space Agency. The floating mass covers more than 1,600 square miles, making it the largest iceberg in the world, agency officials said. The iceberg, dubbed A-76, calved off the… SEE MORE

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World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks free, heads Toward Southern Ocean

Huge Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf

World’s Largest Iceberg Just Broke Off an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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