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Iceberg B-15

Index Iceberg B-15

Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. [1]

22 relations: Adélie penguin, Antarctica, Bathymetry, Cape Adare, David Glacier, Drift ice, Drygalski Ice Tongue, Encounters at the End of the World, Global Positioning System, Global warming, Ice calving, Iceberg, Jamaica, List of recorded icebergs by area, McMurdo Sound, Roosevelt Island, Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Island, Skua, Timaru, Victoria Land, Weddell seal.

Adélie penguin

The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast, which is their only residence.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Bathymetry

Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors.

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Cape Adare

Cape Adare is the north-easternmost peninsula in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.

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David Glacier

David Glacier is the most imposing outlet glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica, fed by two main flows which drain an area larger than 200,000 square kilometres of the East Antarctic plateau, with an estimated ice discharge rate of 7.8 +/- 0.7 km³/year.

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Drift ice

Drift ice is any sea ice other than fast ice, the latter being attached ("fastened") to the shoreline or other fixed objects (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.).Leppäranta, M. 2011.

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Drygalski Ice Tongue

The Drygalski Ice Tongue or Drygalski Barrier or Drygalski Glacier Tongue is a glacier in Antarctica, on the Scott Coast, in the northern McMurdo Sound of Antarctica's Ross Dependency, north of Ross Island.

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Encounters at the End of the World

Encounters at the End of the World is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Ice calving

Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.

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Iceberg

An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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List of recorded icebergs by area

This is a list of icebergs by total area.

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McMurdo Sound

McMurdo Sound and its ice-clogged waters extends about 55 kilometres (34 mi) long and wide.

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Roosevelt Island, Antarctica

Roosevelt Island is an ice-covered island, about long in a NW-SE direction, wide and about in area, lying under the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica.

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Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (as of 2013 an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France).

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Ross Island

Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.

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Skua

The skuas are a group of seabirds with about seven species forming the family Stercorariidae and the genus Stercorarius.

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Timaru

Timaru (Te Tihi-o-Maru) is a port city in the southern Canterbury region of New Zealand, located 157 kilometres southwest of Christchurch and about 196 kilometres northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island.

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Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau.

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Weddell seal

The Weddell seal, Leptonychotes weddellii, is a relatively large and abundant true seal (family: Phocidae) with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica.

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B-15A, B15A, Iceberg B-15A, Iceberg B15, Iceberg B15A.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_B-15

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