Enormous iceberg breaks off from AntarcticaAn enormous iceberg more than six times the size of Auckland has broken away from Antarctica and is adrift in the Wedell Sea. Scientist have been expecting the 5000-square-kilometre block completely break away from the Larsen C ice shelf, since a giant fissure was first noticed in 2014. NASA A massive rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf seen on November 10, 2016. Scientists think Larsen C is now at its smallest since the end of the last ice age some 11,700 years ago. The new iceberg is half as big as the record-holding iceberg B-15, which split from the Ross ice shelf in 2000, but it is considered to be among the 10 largest icebergs ever recorded.

Source: Stuff July 12, 2017 09:56 UTC