Comments on: Our Far South: Roaring Forties, furious fifties and Screaming sixties…

By: antonvanhelden

antonvanhelden — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:40:24 +0000

Thanks Edmund, yes some of the icebergs were enormous, the really big Tabular icebergs were vast. They are quite hard to estimate at sea. What you are seeing also is just litterally “the tip of the iceberg” about only 10% of the iceberg is sitting out of the water. Some of the icebergs we saw up close were bigger than large buildings, some the size of city blocks and some that we could see in the distance were the size of small countries!!!! I believe the largest iceberg on record was the size of Belgium!

A large Iceberg that broke off Antarctica in 2000 was given the name B-15 and was 11,000 square kilometres!!!

The different sizes of icebergs get given different games:

Growlers = small icebergs only about 1m in height
Bergy bits = up to about 5m in height
then small, medium, large and VERY large (up to 75m in height)

So as difficult as it is to be certain of their size…some of them are truly ENORMOUS!

By: Edmund

Edmund — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:02:42 +0000

That iceberg must be very huge in size. How huge is that approximately?

By: Anne et Philippe

Anne et Philippe — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:52:42 +0000

Salut fiston, si tu veux bien dire à ton collègue Anton que je ne l’aime pas car je rêve aussi de photographier des icebergs et c’est pas juste NA !!
J”espère que c’est pas trop dur, il doit quand même pas faire très chaud.
Bon boulot
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