Iceberg C-19
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iceberg-c-19-266-10701296
title:
Iceberg C-19
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Iceberg C-19 is an iceberg that calved from the Ross Ice Shelf in May 2002 on a fissure scientists had been watching since the 1980s. After that the Ross Ice Shelf returned to the size it was in 1911, when it was mapped by Robert F. Scott’s party. It was the second-largest iceberg to calve in the region in a few years. It had a surface area larger than 5500 km2. During 2002 C-19 prevented sea ice from moving out of the southwestern Ross Sea region and this blockage resulted in an unusually high
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Iceberg that calved from the Ross Ice Shelf on May 2002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_C-19
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date modified:
2024-01-27T10:24:37Z
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