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Giant Ice Island Breaks Off From Greenland
Aug 7th 2010 – 7:07AM
NASA
(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...
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