Iceberg A68 is moving along the Antarctic Peninsula, as seen from a satellite animation from the Copernicus Programme and the European Space Agency.
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Two years after its
split from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, the animation shared by Adrian Luckman, satellite imaging glaciologist and professor at Swanesa University in Wales, shows the ice mass rotating nearly 270 degrees, as he
stated in a blog post.
A68 is about 220 yards thick, and has an area of around 2,300 square miles, according to
Weddell Sea Exploration. The iceberg’s area is
nearly equivalent to the state of Delaware.
Since it broke off two years ago, the iceberg has moved about 150 miles north by the Weddell Gyre, an ocean current, Luckman said.
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“For an object weighing around one trillion [metric tons], it appears remarkably mobile — Antarctic tabular icebergs are probably the planet’s most massive free-moving objects,” Luckman wrote.
The iceberg is the sixth largest on satellite record, according to Luckman.