World's largest iceberg breaks up
From correspondents in Auckland
November 4, 2003

THE world's largest iceberg has split in two after being pummelled by a powerful storm,
the Antarctic Sun newspaper reported.

B15, an 11,000-square-kilometre (4,400-square-mile) monster the size of Jamaica,
was one of the biggest icebergs ever seen until it broke up last month, said the weekly
paper seen here Tuesday.

The title of world's largest iceberg now passes to C19A, near a French Antarctic base,
which at 5,659 square kilometres (2,264 square miles) is about the size of Brunei.

B15 has been blamed for the deaths of millions of penguins since it broke away from
the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000, blocking their access to the sea.

Last Friday US researchers planted a weather and global positioning tower on the newly
formed B15A so that it could be more closely tracked, the Antarctic Sun said.