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November 3rd 03, 11:16 PM
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World's largest iceberg breaks up
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. |
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November 4th 03, 03:19 PM
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World's largest iceberg breaks up
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:16:10 -0000, "John Bates"
wrote: 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, Is that bigger or smaller than Wales? -- Paul |
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November 4th 03, 10:02 PM
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World's largest iceberg breaks up
"Paul C" wrote in message ... On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:16:10 -0000, "John Bates" wrote: 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, Is that bigger or smaller than Wales? -- Paul Good stuff Paul. |
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November 5th 03, 07:13 AM
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World's largest iceberg breaks up
Paul C wrote:
B15, an 11,000-square-kilometre (4,400-square-mile) monster the size of Jamaica, Is that bigger or smaller than Wales? More usefully, it's about the size of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Merseyside put together. Or about 53% of the size of Wales.  Jonathan |
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November 5th 03, 11:55 AM
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World's largest iceberg breaks up
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 08:13:30 +0000, Jonathan Stott
wrote: Paul C wrote: B15, an 11,000-square-kilometre (4,400-square-mile) monster the size of Jamaica, Is that bigger or smaller than Wales? More usefully, it's about the size of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Merseyside put together. Aaaaaarrghhh! Meaningless! Or about 53% of the size of Wales. Aaaahhhh... that's better  -- Dave |
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