2,500 square miles, about the size of Delaware

World’s LARGEST Iceberg Broke Off Antarctica, Melting Away

Iceberg that broke off Antarctica was 4 times the size of Manhattan (currently free floating, raising sea levels)

WORLD’S LARGEST ICEBERG “Larsen C” is the size of Delaware. While the event won’t “immediately” raise sea levels, almost every scientist agree: THIS IS BAD.

A giant iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg has broken off an ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea.

Reported to be “hanging by a thread” last month, the trillion-tonne iceberg was found to have split off from the Larsen C segment of the Larsen ice shelf on Wednesday morning after scientists examined the latest satellite data from the area.

The Larsen C ice shelf is more than 12% smaller in area than before the iceberg broke off — or “calved” — an event that researchers say has changed the landscape of the Antarctic peninsula and left the Larsen C ice shelf at its lowest extent ever recorded.

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