The giant
iceberg, known as B15A, is now moving slowly out of McMurdo Sound, where it had blocked sea access, said Lou Sanson, chief executive of the government scientific agency Antarctica New Zealand.
An average
iceberg contains more than 20 billion gallons of water.
$80 MILLION - Maximum estimated cost of the
iceberg pilot scheme.
Climate researchers from the University of Hawaii (USA), the IBS Center for Climate Physics (South Korea), Penn State University (USA) and University of Massachusetts (USA) have now quantified for the first time this effect of Antarctic
iceberg calving on future Southern Hemisphere climate.
Some are even marketing "
iceberg water" as the purest on Earth -- and selling it as a high-end luxury item.
He plans to tow an
iceberg from its current location off of Antarctica to a position 3 kilometers off the Fujairah coast.
He said: "Most likely, the
iceberg had detached from the Spegazzini glacier a few weeks before.
NASA also observed that the
iceberg's sharp angles and the flat surface were an indication of the fact that it was probably "calved from the ice shelf."
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) had issued a recall for the
iceberg lettuce after it detected high levels of pesticide in the vegetable imported from Malaysia.
When it comes to
iceberg hunting, you have to be primed and ready to go.
The
iceberg has come close to properties on the island of Innaarsuit in western Greenland, whose population of 169 have been evacuated from their homes.