Amery Ice Shelf

Id 431085. Amery Iceberg. Released 01/10/2019 5:00 pm. Copyright ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. ESA ©

Our illustration kindly provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) on 1 October indicates that a huge iceberg has broken off the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Dubbed D28, the iceberg is around 1600 sq km – about the size of Greater London. It is approximately 30 km wide and 60 km long, and is estimated to weigh over 300 billion tonnes.