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The Iceberg Cometh: It's The Size Of Oahu, And It's Moving Into The Open Ocean

01 Dec 2023 | Abstracted from NPR

"The largest iceberg in the world, A-23a, is on the move into open ocean!" [announced] British Antarctic Survey...It's a trillion tons of ice...Iceberg A-23a measures 40 by 32 nautical miles...For comparison, Hawaii's island of Oahu is 44 miles long and 30 miles across.

"...the more important thing for people to be aware of is that Antarctica in other places is losing ice very rapidly...that actually is a much more serious problem."

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