A-76

This article describes an iceberg. Other terms with the letter A and the ordinal number 76 are listed under A76 .

Iceberg A-76 on May 16, 2021, the island of Mallorca shown for comparison

At around 4320 km², A-76 is currently (as of May 20, 2021) the largest known iceberg in the world. It calved in the northwest of Antarctica from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf into the Weddell Sea . The iceberg was discovered by the British Antarctic Survey on satellite images of the Copernicus - Sentinel-1 mission of the space agency ESA on May 19, 2021.

At the time of its discovery, the iceberg was about 170 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide. In terms of area, it is therefore somewhat larger than the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca (3603 km²).

See also

• List of the largest recorded icebergs
• Consequences of global warming in Antarctica

Web links

Commons : Iceberg A-76  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The largest iceberg in the world came loose on Spiegel Online on May 19, 2021
• Meet the world's largest iceberg at ESA on May 19, 2021
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2823707

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ESA discovers the world's largest iceberg on tagesschau.de on May 19, 2021

Coordinates: 76 ° 4 ′ 40.8 ″  S , 58 ° 16 ′ 12 ″  W.