In the early hours of May 20, 2024, iceberg A-83 was the third iceberg to calve from the Brunt Ice Shelf in the last four years. (Photo: ESA) A 380 km² iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in the early hours of May 20, 2024. The event had been expected for several...
Chasm-1 remained inactive for many years, but has now created a new iceberg. (Photo: Sebastian Gleich/BAS) A 1550 km² huge iceberg broke off from the 150 m thick Brunt Ice Shelf. The iceberg calved after naturally occurring cracks spread across the entire ice shelf in...
The research icebreaker “Polarstern” in front of the iceberg A74 (Photo: AWI, Tim Kalvelage) Roughly two weeks ago, a massive iceberg calved from the Antarctic Ice Sheet. As the only research vessel nearby, the Polarstern took the opportunity to enter the...
The iceberg at the north end of the Brunt Ice Shelf has now broken loose. Its area of around 1,270 square kilometres is about the size of the city of Los Angeles in the USA, slightly smaller than the canton of Aargau in Switzerland and about half the size of Saarland....
This satellite image taken on January 23, 2021 by ESA’s “Sentinel-1” satellite shows cracks around the “McDonald Ice Rumple”. (Photo: ESA, Sentinel-1) Two years ago, scientists at Britain’s Halley VI station feared that the Brunt...
