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Image copyright Copernicus/Esa/Sentinel-1 Image caption A-68 has now dropped a large chunk of ice itself. The main berg is about 150km long The world’s biggest iceberg, A-68, just got a little smaller. At around 5,100 sq km, the behemoth has been the largest free-floating block of ice in Antarctica since it broke away from the …

Image copyright Robert Larter Image caption B49 was pictured from the deck of an American research vessel A US research ship is the first vessel to encounter the giant new iceberg knocked off the edge of Antarctica. The RV Nathaniel B Palmer passed within a few kilometres of B49, as it’s been designated – the …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThis animation is vertically exaggerated. Molar Berg is actually 200 times wider than it is thick European and American satellites have run the rule over the latest monster chunk of ice to break off Antarctica. Nicknamed “Molar Berg”, the block represents the biggest calving event on the …