Last Year's Colossal Antarctic Iceberg Has Started to Move at a Shocking Speed
1 trillion tonnes of ice that can't be stopped.
PETER DOCKRILL
4 SEP 2018
For a year, not a lot happened. In July 2017, the world's sixth-largest iceberg on record tore free from its Antarctic moorings after months of dramatic anticipation, in which the world watched a gigantic chasm split the Larsen C ice shelf in two.
But then, this colossal broken shard of ice basically hunkered down. Satellite images revealed that over a year later, the iceberg – A68 – despite being buffeted by ocean currents, tides, and winds, was effectively grounded on the shallow seabed of the Bawden Ice Rise.
At least, it was until now.
https://www.sciencealert.com/colossal-antarctic-iceberg-suddenly-drifting-spectacular-amount-of-momentum-a68-larsen-c
