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A trillion-ton iceberg, one of the biggest ever recorded, splintered off western Antarctica and is now floating at sea. Sometime between Monday and Wednesday, a portion of an Antarctic ice shelf ...

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It's the world's biggest iceberg A23a hasn't always held the title. In 2021, for instance, it was supplanted by iceberg A-76, which broke from the Ronne Ice Shelf, also in the Weddell Sea.

Both are floating in the Weddell Sea. “The iceberg is around 170 km in length and 25 km wide, and is slightly larger than the Spanish island of Majorca,” according to the agency.

Iceberg A-76 calved from the shelf into the Weddell Sea last week, an event first spotted by the British Antarctic Survey and confirmed by the U.S. National Ice Center.

This – unlike the massive iceberg – raises the sea level. The recent breakage occurred in Larsen C Ice Shelf and took more than 12% of its total area.

The massive iceberg that calved off Antarctica last week is slowly drifting into the Weddell Sea. Satellite images show the widening gap between the 1-trillion-ton berg — known as A-68 — and ...