Monster Antarctic Iceberg Gets Its Big Break in First-of-its-kind Video

https://www.livescience.com/61753-watch-antarctic-iceberg-break.html

Just recently The British Antarctic Survey released the first ever video of A-68, which is a huge iceberg that broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf in July 2017. Now A-68 is moving into the Weddell Sea, and away from the Larson C ice shelf. A-68 is said to be 2,300 square miles, about the size of Delaware. It also weighs an estimated 1 trillion tons. I think this is pretty cool, and looks cool from the pictures.

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2018 at 2:16 PM

    I think this is a cool (no pun intended) thing that has happened. With that out of the way my concern is that there could be major flooding now since that ice is the size of Delaware. Also it could get worse if more ice were to brake off.

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