![]() ![]() It broke off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000 and still exists in several parts around the Antarctic. The world’s largest iceberg appears to have broken off the Antarctic ice shelf. The largest iceberg ever recorded was called B15 which covered an expanse of 4,250 square miles (11,000 square kilometres) almost the size of Jamaica. By Ivana Kottasov, CNN (CNN) - The world's largest iceberg has calved from Antarctica over the past few days, a giant floating piece of ice close to 80 times the size of Manhattan.The iceberg. Robert Marsh, a scientist at the University of Southampton, said that an iceberg of this scale could take a year or more to melt. It has been surprising how there have been periods of almost no motion, interspersed with rapid flow." "We are doing some research on local ocean currents to try to explain the motion properly. Called A-76 and roughly the shape of Manhattan but more than 70 times bigger, it was picked up on satellite images and is 'currently the largest berg in the world', the ESA said Wednesday. The iceberg is named A-76 and is more than 40. In a statement released by NASA, Grant Bigg, from the University of Sheffield said: "The iceberg is now well out of Pine Island Bay and will soon join the more general flow in the Southern Ocean. Paris: A huge iceberg, the worlds largest, has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica and is floating through the Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency said. 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. "It's floating off into the sea and will get caught up in the current and flow around the Antarctica continent where there are ships," she told Sky News. Dr Bethan Davies, a research scientist at the University of Reading, said it could head into areas with more ships. While the enormous iceberg is not located in a busy shipping area at the moment. Grant Bigg, The University of Sheffield ![]()
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