A giant iceberg half the size of Wales broke off the Ross Ice Shelf in
Antarctica last month. “We haven’t been able to find one bigger,” says Matthew
Lazzara of the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, who searched satellite records going back to 1977.
Lazzara expects the iceberg, which is 295 kilometres long and 400 metres
thick, to drift slowly westwards around Antarctica. It is expected to last for
several years.
