{"id":65882,"date":"2021-05-19T16:06:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65882"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:06:40","slug":"largest-iceberg-breaks-off-becomes-worlds-largest-floating-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65882","title":{"rendered":"Largest Iceberg Breaks Off Becomes World&#8217;s Largest Floating Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mallorca-sized iceberg breaks off from Antarctica, becoming the world\u2019s biggest floating ice mass<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_65885\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65885\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/60a4ffa685f540571e53ef43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/60a4ffa685f540571e53ef43.jpg 980w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/60a4ffa685f540571e53ef43-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/60a4ffa685f540571e53ef43-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO. \u00a9 Reuters \/ Alister Doyle<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>A gigantic iceberg, measuring over 4,000 square km (1544 square miles), has broken off the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The iceberg, called A-76, is now the largest floating ice mass in the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The size of the enormous iceberg rivals many large islands worldwide and is bigger than the Spanish resort island of Mallorca, which measures \u2018just\u2019 3,667 square km. The iceberg is quite long and narrow \u2013 it is around 170 km in length and only 25 km wide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1394913003749969920&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F524210-iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica%2F&amp;sessionId=b839e4bf4b684a7126c460dd54fb4f0d13169288&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1394913003749969920\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The breakage was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, with satellite imagery showing the ice mass split off from the ice sheet in the Weddell Sea in a nearly perfect straight line. The new iceberg has now become the world\u2019s largest floating ice mass, taking the title from A-23A, which is also floating in the Weddell Sea. The previous record-holder is estimated to be some 3880 sq km in size \u2013 which is also bigger than Mallorca.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1393332156265639943&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F524210-iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica%2F&amp;sessionId=b839e4bf4b684a7126c460dd54fb4f0d13169288&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1393332156265639943\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A-23A might regain its title of the largest floater before it melts away, however, as it\u2019s more conveniently shaped \u2013 it\u2019s a rough square \u2013 and is less susceptible to breakage than the A-76.<\/p>\n<p>The birth of the new iceberg comes shortly after a true social media star \u2013 the A-68 gigantic tabular iceberg \u2013 finally melted away. The iceberg, which at the time of its break-off measured some 5,800 square km, used to be one of the largest floating ice sheets ever reordered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It broke off Antarctica&#8217;s Larsen C ice shelf back in July 2017 and embarked on a three-and-a-half-year journey into the South Atlantic, which was closely monitored by satellites. By April this year, the iceberg finally disintegrated, leaving no pieces large enough to track.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/524210-iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/524210-iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mallorca-sized iceberg breaks off from Antarctica, becoming the world\u2019s biggest floating ice mass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}