Iceberg Bigger Than Rhode Island Breaks Off

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An enormous iceberg, a little bigger than the state of Rhode Island, has broken off of Antarctica, reports Live Science.

The first spotting

The finger-shaped chunk of ice, which is roughly 105 miles (170 kilometers) long and 15 miles (25 kilometers) wide, was spotted by satellites as it calved from the western side of Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf, according to the European Space Agency. The berg is now floating freely on the Weddell Sea, a large bay in the western Antarctic where explorer Ernest...

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