Super Iceberg Seen off the Australian Coast
December 10th 2009 01:03
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A satellite image of iceberg B17B (top left), some 19 kilometres (12 miles) long, floating in the Ross Sea, near Antarctica. The monster iceberg - nearly twice the size of manhattan island - is drifting towards Australia.
A super iceberg is floating towards the Australian mainland.
The iceberg has broken off the Antarctic shelf of some 10 years ago and it slowly made its way across the ocean. Although the iceberg is estimated to be 19 km long by 8 km in width it should not pose any threat to the Australian mainland.
The iceberg is reaching warmer waters were its expected to break up before reaching land.
This is once-in-a-lifetime discovery although many icebergs to migrate from the Antarctic from time to time this is perhaps the largest one this century. B17B has since travelled thousands of kilometers and a third of the way around Antarctica thanks to ocean currents and winds.
B17B drifting at sea
It stayed completely still in one location for about five years, but is now on the move again.
B17B, was spotted by Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young using satellite images taken by NASA. Icebergs of this magnitude had not been seen as far north since the 19th century.
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Comment by CarlCan
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Yes would make plenty of ice cubes for Christmas drinks!!
This Ice burg is not the product of global warming but a natural shedding of ice.
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