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The massive slab of ice released the fresh water when it scraped past the island of South Georgia last year, according to researchers from the University of Leeds.

152 billion tonnes of fresh water – equivalent to 20 x Loch Ness or 61 million Olympic sized swimming pools, entered the seas around the sub-Antarctic

Scientists monitoring the giant A68a iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of fresh water was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic

A massive iceberg that broke off an Antarctic shelf earlier this month has been identified by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the world's largest.

While the air over Antarctica is warming dramatically, experts say this huge 'calving' was part of a natural process

The World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks Free of Antarctica Image Credit: Shutterstock / 2j architecture 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 kilomet...

Humongous Iceberg Bigger Than New York City Has Broken Off From Antarctica - Photo Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202105201082948402-humongous-iceberg-bigger-than-new-york-city-has-broken-off-from-antarctica---photo/ According to the European Space Agency, which broke the news, it has become the world’s largest iceberg, behemoths like A-68, which was the size of Brunei. Icebergs are periodically calved from ice shelves, something that is part of a natural cycle. However...

The chunk of ice is larger than the state of Rhode Island

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The massive block of ice broke off from the Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea It is 105 miles long by 15 miles wide and was spotted by experts on May 14 The British Antarctic Survey first saw it in images from ESAs Sentinel satellites  Experts from the British Antarctic Survey say this latest iceberg calving is a natural event that was expected rather than something linked to climate change