World's largest iceberg just broke off an Antarctic ice shelf
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Summary
The floating mass covers more than 1,600 square miles, making it the largest iceberg in the world, agency officials said.The iceberg, dubbed A-76, calved off the Ronne Ice Shelf into the Weddell Sea. The European Space Agency's twin Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites spotted the giant slab of ice breaking away on May 13.
As said here by Denise Chow