Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier

[Jacques van Oene]

Envisat radar imagery confirms that the B-15A iceberg - the world's largest
floating object - is adrift once more after two months aground on a shallow
seamount. This latest development poses a renewed threat to the nearby pier
of land-attached ice known as the Drygalski ice tongue.

Full story at:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaEO/SEMQ5FRMD6E_planet_0.html

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