Alaskan storm cracks giant iceberg to pieces in faraway Antarctica

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Landsat satellite image of iceberg B15 in January 2001. The iceberg covered about 11000 square miles approximately twice the size of Delaware. Robert Bindschaldler NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Landsat satellite image of iceberg B15 in January 2001. The iceberg covered about 11,000 square miles, approximately twice the size of Delaware. Robert Bindschaldler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

A severe storm that occurred in the Gulf of Alaska in October 2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant iceberg floating near the coast of Antarctica, more than 8,300 miles away. A team of scientists led by Professors Douglas MacAyeal at the University of Chicago and Emile Okal at Northwestern University present evidence connecting the two events in the October issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.


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