“Over coming weeks or months, the iceberg may move away or it could run aground and remain close to Brunt Ice Shelf,” Francis said in the statement. Scientists are now watching the iceberg to see what it will do next. “Change in the ice at Halley is a natural process and there is no connection to the calving events seen on Larsen C Ice Shelf, and no evidence that climate change has played a significant role,” according to the BAS. The giant piece of ice is shaped like an ironing board and it’s about 105. The ice shelf flows toward the sea at a rate of about 2 kilometers per year and icebergs break off at irregular intervals. The world’s largest iceberg just formed after breaking off from Antarctica, according to the European Space Agency. There have been six Halley Research Stations in place on the Brunt Ice Shelf since 1956 to make atmospheric and space weather observations.
Map showing where the iceberg is splitting off.
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HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER Facing the South Atlantic Ocean, the floating Brunt Ice Shelf is 150 meters thick and, at irregular intervals, calves off icebergs. Is an iceberg weighing hundreds of billions of tons on a penguin collision course?Īn even bigger iceberg broke away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017 and floated into the open ocean late last year. Iceberg A-68, which covers more than 2,000 square miles, recently left Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, heading for the Southern Ocean. ANTARCTICA Large, naturally occurring cracks grew across Antarctica 's Brunt Ice Shelf, breaking off the new iceberg on Sunday. Iceberg A68a, photographed by European Space Agency satellite Sentinel-3 on December 9, approaches South Georgia in the South Atlantic.
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