A chunk of ice 414 square km big (larger than the city of Montreal) broke off the Wilkins Ice Shelf. This is an ice shelf that floats a top the ocean water in the Antarctic. With warmer ocean temperatures this chunk of ice took only 10 days to fracture off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Additional Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080325120714.htm
http://nsidc.org/news/press/20080325_Wilkins.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uoca-ais032508.php
Thursday, March 27, 2008
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