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Antarctic Icebergs

NSIDC periodically provides information and imagery about icebergs, usually those calved from Antarctic ice shelves. In other cases, we simply provide links to iceberg news and information elsewhere online.

We also provide links to iceberg imagery and questions and answers about icebergs.

 

 

 

Icebergs in the News

8 DECEMBER 2003
Abandoned Penguin Colonies May Help Refine Antarctic Climate Studies (NSF)

22 NOVEMBER 2003
From the Antarctic: Iceberg collapse saves penguin colonies (New Zealand Herald)

11 NOVEMBER 2003
Iceberg' s end caught by Envisat (Innovations-Report)

4-7 NOVEMBER 2003
Storm helps break giant iceberg apart in Antarctica, New Zealand (The Antarctic Sun, The Age, The Australian, Brisbane Courier Mail, Canoe News, Daily Telegraph, Melbourne Herald Sun, MSNBC, NEWS.com.au, Newsday, Penn Live, Philippines Daily News, Pravda, Sky News, Times Daily)

4 NOVEMBER 2003
Sky-high Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-central Washington (Science Daily)

14 OCTOBER 2003
Massive Antarctic iceberg breaks in two (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

9 OCTOBER 2003
Iceberg B-15A Breaks into two in the Ross Sea (National Ice Center)

1 OCTOBER 2003
Huge Antarctic Iceberg Makes A Big Splash On Sea Life (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, EurekAlert)

1 OCTOBER 2003
Rare iceberg sighted off Tuktoyaktuk (CBC North)