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Large tabular icebergs are formed from breaking off ice shelves. Some of these tabular icebergs can measure miles in length and width. As they continue to drift toward warmer waters, the icebergs begin to break up and form deep crevaces between large sheets of ice.
As we approached Hope Bay along the Antarctic sound - affectionately called "Iceberg Alley" - we came across this tabular iceberg that was 5 miles long. This iceberg had broken off the Larsen Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea in February 1995 and had drifted west into the Antarctic Sound.
Photo by: Nydia R. Hanna, MV Marco Polo, December 29, 1995 |
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