A68 weighed billions of tonnes and was bigger than the size of Norfolk when it broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf in the Weddell Sea on the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula in mid-2017.

Enormous iceberg A68 was the first to be trackable on an almost daily basis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A68, a gigantic berg that broke free from the Antarctic in July 2017, has now pushed farther north. When it calved off of the Larsen C Ice Shelf, the iceberg had an area close to 2,300 square ...

A68 was once about the size of Prince Edward Island. It was believed to be the world’s largest iceberg while intact, although it wasn’t quite as big as the B15 iceberg which had an area of ...

The gigantic ice mass — called A68a — was known as a tabular iceberg due to its rectangular shape. At its largest it was roughly the size of Delaware, covering approximately 2,300 square miles ...

Iceberg A23a "calved," or fell off the greater glacier on the continent, from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf and floated in the Weddell Sea before it ended up caught on the ocean floor in ...

Iceberg A68 was an eye-popping behemoth when it broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017. A huge piece of that iceberg (a chunk known as A68a) is on a disquieting path toward the wildlife haven ...

“When it first calved away, Iceberg A68 was around 400 times as long as it was thick – very different from the shape one normally imagines an iceberg to be,” Prof Luckman told The Independent.

A68 was once about the size of Prince Edward Island. It was believed to be the world’s largest iceberg while intact, although it wasn’t quite as big as the B15 iceberg which had an area of ...

At its largest it was roughly the size of Delaware, covering approximately 2,300 square miles (6,000 square kilometers), and in 2017 it famously calved off another iceberg, A68, dumping 1 trillion ...

A68 was once about the size of Prince Edward Island. It was believed to be the world’s largest iceberg while intact, although it wasn’t quite as big as the B15 iceberg which had an area of ...