The world’s largest iceberg has detached from an Antarctic glacier

The iceberg named A-76 is the largest iceberg in the world and is half the size of Corsica. Today he was detached from glacier Ronne in Antarctic, according to images captured by a satellite of the European Copernicus program, announced the European Space Agency (ESA).

The iceberg is about 170 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide and has a total area of ​​4,320 square kilometers. It was detached in the Wendell Sea, according to yesterday’s announcement of the Service.

The iceberg was originally spotted by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a British polarity agency, as reported by Agence France-Presse and relayed by the Athenian News Agency.

Until recently the biggest iceberg was the A-23A, which had a size of 3,380 square kilometers and was wandering in the Wendell Sea, according to ESA.

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