A Manhattan-sized ice island just broke free from Greenland
The 76 sq km iceberg is the glacier’s largest floating-ice loss since 2012, and researchers say two more ice islands may still break away.
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A Manhattan-sized ice island just broke free from Greenland
A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan. Satellites watched cracks spread rapidly before the 76-square-kilometer slab finally broke free on August 4. It is the glacier’s biggest calving event since 2012, and scientists say two even larger pieces could eventually follow. The rare Arctic iceberg will now be tracked as it drifts, breaks apart, and potentially affects shippin…
Satellite imagery showed a split of the Petermann glacier in Greenland.
AGI - An ice island of 76 square kilometers, with an extension equal to that of the island of Manhattan and a thickness of up to 150 meters, has detached from the Petermann glacier, in the North-West of Greenland. The phenomenon, which took place last August 4, represents the largest detachment event recorded in the Arctic since 2020 and the greatest loss of floating ice for the Petermann glacier since 2012. To document the fracture were radars …
As big as Manhattan: A huge table iceberg has broken off from the Petermann Glacier's ice front – it is the largest ice break in the Arctic since 2020.
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