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6,000 sq.km Antarctic iceberg splits: (Giant Ice break in Antarctica) Context:
- One of the biggest icebergs ever recorded has just broken away from Antarctica.
- An U.S. satellite observed the berg on 12th July, 2017, while passing over a region known as the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
What is it?
- The new Larsen berg is probably in the top ten biggest ever recorded bergs.
- The largest observed in the satellite era was called B-15 which came away from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000 and measured some 11,000 sq.
- The giant block is estimated to cover an area of roughly 6,000 sq.
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