The 3,320 square kilometre slab of ice dubbed A-76 broke off Ronne shelf and is floating in Weddell sea
A giant slab of ice almost four times the size of New York City has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat in the world, according to the European Space Agency.
The newly calved berg, designated A-76 by scientists, was spotted in recent satellite images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, the space agency said in a statement posted on its website with a photo of the enormous, oblong ice sheet.
