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The iceberg B15A is 71 miles long and has been adrift off Antarctica for a while. It finally bumped into the 43-mile-long Drygalski “tongue” of ice extending offshore from the “David” glacier yesterday. Satellite photo here.

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An image snapped by the European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite on 15 April shows a 5-km-long section of the ice tongue breaking off at its seaward end as the bottle-shaped iceberg brushes past.

B15-A is the largest remaining section of the large B15 iceberg which broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. Scientists have placed a Global Positioning System device on it to track its movements.

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