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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