At its largest it was roughly the size of Delaware, covering approximately 2,300 square miles (6,000 square kilometers), and in 2017 it famously calved off another iceberg, A68, dumping 1 trillion ...

Named A68, it's one of the largest icebergs on record. This month, the iceberg got a nudge from powerful winds and is now on its way into the nearby Weddell Sea.

A68 was once about the size of Prince Edward Island. It was believed to be the world’s largest iceberg while intact, although it wasn’t quite as big as the B15 iceberg which had an area of ...

Enormous iceberg A68 was the first to be trackable on an almost daily basis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

“When it first calved away, Iceberg A68 was around 400 times as long as it was thick – very different from the shape one normally imagines an iceberg to be,” Prof Luckman told The Independent.