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Icebergs of the Antarctic

Photographer: Rear Admiral Harley D. Nygren, NOAA Corps

Map from Worldatlas.com

 

An oblong iceberg roughly as big as Rhode Island called B-09B (center right in this image) collided with the edge of the Mertz Glacier in eastern Antarctica this month breaking away a new iceberg (top left) that is nearly as large at B-09B. This image from Feb. 20, 2010, is one of a series of images from NASA's Aqua satellite that showed the progression and aftermath of the collision. The floating ice tongue of the glacier is created as ice flows down from Antarctica and onto the water. Glacier tongues grow longer year by year until they eventually break off, calving a new iceberg.

Image Credit: NASA


 

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Iceberg names are derived from the Antarctic quadrant in which they were originally sighted. The quadrants are divided counter-clockwise in the following manner:

  • A = 0-90W (Bellinghausen/Weddell Sea)

  • B = 90W-180 (Amundsen/Eastern Ross Sea)

  • C = 180-90E (Western Ross Sea/Wilkesland)

  • D = 90E-0 (Amery/Eastern Weddell Sea)

 

When an iceberg is first sighted, The National Ice Center documents its point of origin. The letter of the quadrant, along with a sequential number is assigned to the iceberg. 

Iceberg off Mertz Glacier Tongue NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using EO-1

 

 

 

 

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Antarctic Icebergs 

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NIC Antarctic Iceberg Locations Polar Map Preview on PolarWatch (noaa.gov)

 

 

http://www.natice.noaa.gov/products/south_icebergs_on_demand.html

 

 

The National Ice Center is a tri-agency operational center represented by the United States Navy (Department of Defense); the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Department of Commerce); and the United States Coast Guard (Department of Transportation). The National Ice Center mission is to provide world-wide operational ice analyses for the armed forces of the United States and allied nations, U.S. government agencies, and the private sector.

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 Credit: U.S. Coast Guard, The National Ice Center, Royal New Zealand Air Force,NOAA