Auckland, Nov 04: The world`s largest iceberg has
split in two after being pummelled by a powerful storm, the
Antarctic Sun newspaper reported.
B15, an 11,000-square-kilometre monster, the size of
Jamaica, was one of the biggest icebergs ever seen until it
broke up last month, said the weekly paper.
The title of world`s largest iceberg now passes to C19A,
near a French Antarctic base, which at 5,659 square kilometre
is about the size of Brunei.
B15 has been blamed for the deaths of millions of
penguins since it broke away from the Ross ice shelf in march
2000, blocking their access to the sea.
Last Friday, US researchers planted a weather and global
positioning tower on the newly formed B15A so that it could be
more closely tracked, the Antarctic Sun said.
Bureau Report
