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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 kilometers large and was spotted by the British Antarctic Survey  —  a project that is one of the wor...

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, in recent years these instances have increased, which researchers blame on climate change. A gigan...

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 ESA's 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