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World’s largest iceberg shatters into a dozen pieces – Livescience.com
Iceberg A68a was once large enough to hold the five boroughs of New York five times over; now, it’s shattering like a broken window.
Theworld’s largest iceberg
has shattered into a dozen pieces, the U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) reported on Sunday (Jan. 31), bringing the colossal object a few leaps closer to its total destruction. Thousands of local penguins have breathed a sigh of relief.
The iceberg, named A-68a, broke off of northern Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf on July 12, 2017, and has been steadily drifting north ever since. While the berg initially measured more than 2,300 square miles (6,000 square kilometers)…
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