Biggest Ice Island For 48 Years Breaks Off Greenland Glacier

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 8, August 2010

 

The huge chunk of ice, which is 600ft thick, broke off the Petermann Glacier, located about 620 miles south of the North Pole, on Thursday.

 

It is now drifting in a remote area called the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada. Read the full report here.

 

Source: Damien Pearse The Guardian.

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