The A-68 led the classification of the largest

icebergs in the world since July 2017, when it was

formed when it broke off the Larsen ice shelf -in the
Antarctic Peninsula-, until March 2021, when it
separated from the Brunt shelf one large mass of
floating ice called

An iceberg is a huge sheet of ice that floats in the

oceans due to the detachment of glaciers. These
masses of ice are formed by frost and snow that
have the sea as their only support.

They originate from the detachment of glaciers. Its

formation occurs over time when the snow is
compressed by the weight of the flakes and turns
into ice. They are made up of frost and snow. They
can measure tens or hundreds of kilometers long.
Most icebergs look white or blue when they float in
the water, but since the beginning of the last
century, mariners have been reporting the strange
phenomenon of green icebergs in some places in
Antarctica.

An average size iceberg weighs 20 million tons

These floating masses of ice are not just frozen

water. They also carry sediment that they have
incorporated during the formation of glaciers on
land and rocks. Among others, they contain a key
element for life: iron. This metal is an essential
micronutrient for all living organisms.
an iceberg is an iceberg; an island of ice resulting
from the fragmentation of ice from ice caps, which
always comes from the continents and which is
dragged towards lower latitudes, sometimes helped
by cold sea currents of arctic origin

Icebergs can have a life of up to ten years before

melting (little by little they break up into small
pieces of ice called growlers) and reach lengths of
tens of kilometers, although only one eighth of them
emerges to the surface.