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Giant Crack in Antarctica About to Spawn NY-Size Iceberg
from National Geographic News
With a gargantuan crack slowly splitting it apart, Antarctica's fastest-melting glacier is about to lose a chunk of ice larger than all of New York City,
scientists say.
The crevasse stretches 19 miles long and up to 260 feet wide, as shown in a picture taken by NASA's Terra satellite in October and featured this week as a
NASA Image of the Day.
Snaking across the floating tongue of the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica, the crack is expected to create an iceberg 350 square miles--versus 303
square miles for Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx combined, according to NASA.
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