Petermann Glacier News

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Giant Greenland Iceberg Update: Where It's Heading

(Aug. 9) -- If you've booked a late-summer cruise of the north Atlantic, you may want to keep an eye out for a particularly large chunk of floating ice. On Aug. 5, an iceberg four times the size of Manhattan separated from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. Estimated at 92 square miles and 600 feet thick, the unnamed iceberg...

Giant Ice Island Breaks Off From Greenland

(Aug. 7) -- A giant chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan has broken off from one of Greenland's two biggest glaciers, creating the largest Arctic iceberg since 1962. The new ice island has a surface area of about 100 square miles and a thickness of about half the height of the Empire State Building. It broke off...

Background on Petermann Glacier

Petermann Glacier is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait. It connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean near 81 degrees north latitude.

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