Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan Event
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- 2010-08-05
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Der Petermann-Gletscher in Grönland hat am 5. August 2010 eine gewaltige Eisinsel gekalbt. Dies ist der größte Eisabbruch in der Arktis seit 1962. Die gut 250 Quadratkilometer große Eisinsel driftet in der Meerenge zwischen Grönland und Kanada.
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On Aug. 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, about 251 square kilometers (97 square miles) in size, or roughly four times the size of Manhattan, broke off the Petermann Glacier along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The Petermann Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 70-kilometer-long (40-miles) floating ice shelf, according to researchers at the University of Delaware, Newark, Dela. The recently calved iceberg is the largest to form in the Arctic in 50 years.
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