Antarctic Iceberg A Quarter The Size Of Wales Splits From Ice Shelf

12 July 2017, 17:29 | Updated: 12 July 2017, 17:32

This is the giant iceberg which is more than a quarter of the size of Wales and has broken off an ice shelf in Antarctica.

Weighing a staggering trillion tonnes it is one of the biggest ever recorded.

Iceberg
Picture: SWNS

Experts fear the dramatic loss could trigger the whole collapse of the Larsen C Ice Shelf and cause sea levels to rise.

A spokesman from the British Antarctic Survey said the iceberg, which measures 2,200 square miles, had been “hanging by a thread” for months.

Scientists will now study the shelf to look at how its newly exposed ocean and seabed areas are populated with life.

Iceberg
Picture: SWNS

You can get a bird's-eye view of the vast iceberg in the video at the top of this page.