World's largest iceberg A-76 breaks off in Antarctica

World’s largest iceberg A-76 breaks off in Antarctica

World’s largest iceberg A-76 breaks off in Antarctica

  • Recently, the world’s largest iceberg has been discovered in Weddell Sea of Antarctica as per the information by  European Space Agency (ESA).
  • The iceberg, named A-76, broke off from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf, one of the biggest of several gigantic floating sheets of ice in the continent.
  • The finger-shaped iceberg A-76 is currently the biggest iceberg floating in the world, with a surface area of around 4,320 square kilometres, that means thrice the size of Delhi.

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