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The World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks Free of Antarctica
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A 4000 square-kilometer iceberg has been cleaved from the Ronne Ice Shelf, making it the largest current iceberg.
The Weddell Sea, part of the Southern Ocean, is already home to some pretty impressively sized icebergs, and a new berg that has separated from the Ronne Ice Shelf has just snatched the record for the largest extant iceberg.
The gigantic iceberg, dubbed A-76, is 4,320 square kilometers large and was spotted by the British Antarctic Survey a project that is one of the world’s leading polar science operations¹.
The enormity of the berg makes it the largest in the world. (Photo: ESA)
With climate change triggering unmitigated changes in weather patterns and heating up Earth s atmosphere, one of the biggest threats is to the southernmost tip of the planet, which is continuously witnessing the degradation of the critically needed ice-shelf. Now, an enormous iceberg has calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf and is afloat in Antarctica s Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency said.
Dubbed as the largest iceberg in the world, A-76 measures around 4,320 sq km in size, three times the size of New Delhi, which is 1,484 sq km. The iceberg was spotted by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission of the agency and has successfully taken over the ranks from the A-23A iceberg approximately 3880 sq km in size, also afloat in Weddell sea.