[ExI] World's largest iceberg breaks off of Antarctica

[John Grigg]

"An enormous iceberg, a little bigger than the state of Rhode Island, has
broken off of *Antarctica*
<https://www.livescience.com/21677-antarctica-facts.html>.

The finger-shaped chunk of ice, which is roughly 105 miles (170 kilometers)
long and 15 miles (25 kilometers) wide, was spotted by satellites as it
calved from the western side of Antarctica's Ronne Ice Shelf, according to
the *European Space Agency*
<https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/05/Meet_the_world_s_largest_iceberg>.
The berg is now floating freely on the Weddell Sea, a large bay in the
western Antarctic where explorer Ernest Shackleton once lost his ship, the
Endurance, to pack ice.

The 1,667-square-mile (4,320 square kilometers) iceberg — which now the
world’s biggest and has been called A-76, after the Antarctic quadrant
where it was first spotted — was captured by the European Union's
Copernicus Sentinel, a two-satellite constellation that orbits Earth's
poles. The satellites confirmed an earlier observation made by the British
Antarctic Survey, which was the first organization to notice the
breakaway."

https://www.livescience.com/biggest-iceberg-breaks-free.html
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