World’s largest iceberg hits ice tongue

The world’s largest iceberg has finally bumped into an Antarctic ice tongue, breaking off a five-kilometre-long section.

This had been mooted as “the collision of the century,” but the vagaries of icebergs, currents and wind being what they are, it ended up being more of a “bump in the night”–although any bump that breaks off a five-kilometre-long chunk of ice is a pretty big bump.

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