An Illustrated Overlay of the Iceberg's Dimensions Over Manhattan (IMAGE)

New York University

An Illustrated Overlay of the Iceberg's Dimensions Over Manhattan

Caption

A team of scientists has captured on video a four-mile iceberg breaking away from a glacier in eastern Greenland. The resulting iceberg, broken off from Greenland's Helheim Glacier, would stretch from lower Manhattan up to Midtown in New York City, as shown in this illustrated overlay.

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Google Earth image courtesy of Denise Holland.

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