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Another Monster Iceberg Breaks
Off Antarctic Ice Shelf
By Peter Dykstra
CNN Sci-Tech Unit
5-9-2
(CNN) - Satellite images from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) have detected another in an
increasing series of
massive icebergs which has broken off the frozen continent
of Antarctica.
The new iceberg measures roughly 47 miles by 4.6 miles (76
km by 7 km),
or almost ten times the area of Manhattan.
In recent years, the escalating number of massive icebergs
breaking free
from the continent has raised concerns that temperatures
are steadily
warming in the Antarctic region.
Such a trend, which many scientists suspect is an early
sign of global
warming, could have implications for climate changes over
much of the
planet's surface. Also, many in the shipping industry
consider the
development a navigation hazard as icebergs drift northward
and break up.
NOAA monitoring of satellite images from the U.S. Defense
Meteorological
Satellite Program detected the new berg this week on the
edge of the Ross
Ice Shelf, a expansive ice area extending out from the
continent in the
portion of Antarctica closest to New Zealand.
The National Ice Center, a Navy, NOAA and Coast Guard inter-
agency,
tracks the locations of the icebergs, and in recent years
has spotted some
within 1,000 miles of Capetown, South Africa and
Christchurch, New
Zealand.
Icebergs can take years or longer to drift into open water,
a National Ice
Center spokesman said. Some bergs remain grounded near the
Antarctic
coast for decades. Right now C-18 remains close to the
shelf and does not
pose a risk to navigation.
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