1636 km2 iceberg calces off Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica

Meanwhile Radio NZ is too busy going after "hate speech" that they neglected to report on this.

Sorry, folks it does not fit their agenda even if the world media reports on it

Massive iceberg breaks off 

Antarctic ice sheet

Stuff.co.nz,

1 October, 2019

One of the biggest icebergs recorded has broken away from an Antarctica.

The massive block of ice - covering 1636 square kilometres - calved from the Amery Ice Shelf, the BBC reported.

The iceberg, named D28, was estimated to weigh 315 billion tonnes.

It had shown massive cracks for years before breaking free.

The block of ice was so large it would have to be monitored to ensure the safety of shipping, the BBC said.

A one trillion tonne iceberg broke off from Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017.

The calving of the estimated 6000 square kilometre block of ice reduced that ice shelf's area by more than 12 per cent.