Antarctica’s massive icebergs
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A giant slab of ice – almost four times the size of New York City – has calved off an Antarctic ice shelf. The European Space Agency has confirmed that A-76 is the world’s largest current iceberg
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40km 25 miles

Ronne Ice Shelf
Weddell Sea

May 14, 2021: Dubbed A-76, 4,320km2 iceberg breaks off Ronne Ice Shelf into Weddell Sea
Weddell Sea
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2017, Larsen C Ice Shelf: 5,000km2 iceberg splits from shelf. A-68a travels 2,500km before breaking up in April 2021

1986, Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf: Three icebergs totalling 10,700km2 break away

2013, Pine Island Glacier: 700km2 iceberg

Feb 2021, Brunt Ice Shelf: Iceberg A-74, 1,270km2, breaks off shelf

2019, Thwaites Glacier: Scientists fear 192,000km2 glacier could one day collapse, triggering three-metre rise in global sea level

Ronne Ice Shelf
Filchner Ice Shelf
Amundsen Sea
Indian Ocean
South Pole
Ross Ice Shelf 
Ross Sea


ANTARCTICA
Transantartic Mountains 
Antarctic Cicle 

1,600km 1,000 miles
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Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-1 imagery
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