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B15 Antarctic Iceberg The largest of these, B-15A, was the world’s largest free-floating object—it was 122 km (76 miles) long, 27 km (17 miles) wide, and covered an area of 3,100 km² (1,200 mile², or approximately the size of Luxembourg). In November 2003, after the separation from B-15J iceberg, B-15A drifted away from Ross Island on the open waters of the Ross Sea.
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- Pfeffer, INSTAAR/University of Colorado. Greenland, the world's largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet (seven meters). Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet (60 meters).Satellite measurements from space and speed measurements on land confirm that Greenland's glaciers are melting and on the move.t then completely disappeared by 6,800 years ago in two geologically rapid bursts, shedding enough ice to raise sea levels by as much as four feet (1.3 meters) per century, according to research published this week in Nature Geoscience.
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Suspension bridge Mackinac Bridge (USA, 1957), the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western hemisphere. Si Du River Bridge (China, 2009), the highest bridge in the world, with its deck around 500 metres above the surface of the river.
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Iceberg is twice the size of Atlanta The largest iceberg ever recorded was called B15. With an area of 4,250 square miles -- about the size of the state of Connecticut or the island of Jamaica -- it calved off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. B15 has since broken up, but parts of it still exist around the Antarctic today.
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- Sea ice protects icebergs from the battering of waves and helps them last longer. Years of little sea ice cover are often years of few icebergs along Newfoundland's coast. Also, there may be areas where you can't see any, but 100 kilometres up the coast there might be dozens, so be prepared to travel around.t was 13 km long, 6 km wide, and was about 20 m above water. It weighed over 9 billion tonnes-enough for everyone in the world to drink a litre of water a day for more than 4 years.
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World's Tallest Tsunami World's Tallest Tsunami A tsunami with a record run-up height of 1720 feet occurred in in Lituya Bay, Alaska. A third boat was in Lituya Bay at the time of the Tsunami. It was anchored near the mouth of the bay and was sunk by the big wave.
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- Iceberg (Dirk Pitt Series #2) by Clive Cussler. High seas explorer Dirk Pitt must stop an American millionaire from using impoverished nations for his own personal experiments in this #1 New York Times-bestselling action adventure series. A routine survey mission over the North Atlantic exposes a missing luxury yacht frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice.
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Millennium Park - Art & Architecture A 12-foot-high arch provides a gate to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives. Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Cloud Gate sits upon the AT&T Plaza, which was made possible by a gift from AT&T. Learn More . About the Artist: Anish Kapoor; Download Audio Tour (0:02:32)
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- July 7th, 1958, 1638 foot tall waves that were caused by a huge ice/rock fall. This is twice the size of the… Eiffel Tower. Further details: The highest naturally-occurring tsunami ever recorded occurred in Lituya Bay, a large inlet on the coast of Alaska.
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- play The Titanic iceberg starts life as a snowflake. The iceberg that sank Titanic started life as a snowflake 15,000 years earlier. The iceberg that sank Titanic started life as a snowflake 15,000 years earlier, compacting into solid ice before being broken up into bergs by melt water and the earth's inner heat.
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Evergreen Point Floating Bridge The bridge's total length is approximately 4,750 meters (15,580 ft). Its 2,310 meters (7,580 ft) floating section is the longest floating bridge in the world. The Evergreen Point of the bridge's original name is the westernmost of the three small Eastside peninsulas that SR 520 crosses. (The other two are Hunts Point and Yarrow Point .) In 1988, it was renamed for the state's 15th governor, Albert D. Rosellini, who had advocated its construction.
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- The fact that water expands upon freezing causes icebergs to float. The fact that water reaches a maximum density at about 4°C causes bodies of water to freeze on the top first. Then the further expansion as a part of the phase change keeps the ice floating with some 8% of its mass above the surface.his decrease in density is only about one part in 10,000 as it cools from 4°C to 0°C, but this is sufficient to cause the water near freezing to come to the top. The water further expands upon freezing, so that water freezes from the top down, and ice floats on water.
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Finding the deepest iceberg scours to date provides new insights into the Arctic's glacial past The Hovgaard Ridge is a plateau in the deep Arctic Sea, located a good 400 kilometres off of Greenland's eastern coast. Found at a depth of 1,200 metres the five lineaments are the deepest iceberg scours found to date in the Arctic. The scours are as much as four kilometres long and 15 metres in depth. Such scours are a window into the past.
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Iceberg An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice (one form of sea ice).
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- The C-1 iceberg broke off the Ross shelf in May 2002. This is an image from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite. This is a map of the southwestern Ross Sea showing the drift path taken by iceberg C-19 beginning May 11, 2002 and moving up in the diagram.
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North America's largest drydock set afloat in North Portland (photos & video) Fully assembled, it will be 960-feet long, almost twice as long as Portland’s KOIN Tower is tall. A $40 million floating drydock called Vigorous was set afloat Wednesday north of the St. Johns Bridge after being carried across the Pacific Ocean by the world's largest heavy-lift ship.
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- Hubbard Glacier. The Hubbard Glacier is absolutely massive. In fact, it’s calving face is an absolutely stunning 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide and up to 400 feet (130 meters) tall, making it the largest tidewater glacier in Alaska. The Hubbard Glacier.In fact, its size is what distinguishes the Hubbard from every other glacier on the Alaska cruise route. If you want to see the biggest, then you want to stop at the Hubbard. But there is more to Disenchantment Bay than just its amazing glacier.ubbard Glacier. The Hubbard Glacier is absolutely massive. In fact, it’s calving face is an absolutely stunning 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide and up to 400 feet (130 meters) tall, making it the largest tidewater glacier in Alaska. The Hubbard Glacier.
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How big is Antarctica's biggest iceberg? Iceberg B-15. Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. It measured around 295 kilometres (183 mi) long and 37 kilometres (23 mi) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (4,200 sq mi)—larger than the whole island of Jamaica.
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16 Hotels That Are So Cool You'll Want To Stay Forever ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. Jukkasjärvi is the world’s first and largest hotel built of snow and ice. Every year, around 50 artists head to Sweden to help create the structure with different works all over the property. This means that every year the hotel looks a little bit different.
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- The tallest wave ever recorded was a local tsunami in Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958
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Scientists confirm that warm ocean water is melting the biggest glacier in East Antarctica (Australian Antarctic Division (Photo: Paul Brown, Australian Maritime College)) Scientists at institutions in the United States and Australia on Friday published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Totten glacier, East Antarctica. And the result was a troubling confirmation of what scientists already feared — Totten is melting from below.
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World's Tallest Tsunami World's Tallest Tsunami A tsunami with a record run-up height of 1720 feet occurred in in Lituya Bay, Alaska. A third boat was in Lituya Bay at the time of the Tsunami. It was anchored near the mouth of the bay and was sunk by the big wave.he force of the wave removed all trees and vegetation from elevations as high as 1720 feet (524 meters) above sea level. Millions of trees were uprooted and swept away by the wave. This is the highest wave that has ever been known.
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The 'frozen wave': Stunning 50ft blue ice monolith captured in the Antarctic Frozen towers: This blue ice is created because ice bubbles are compressed and light at the red end of the spectrum is absorbed Hard work: Mr Travouillon travelled to the Antarctic while studying for his PhD from the Australian university of New South Wales, between 2001-2004
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- The manta ray (Manta birostris) is the largest ray reaching up to 9 meters in width. This ray feeds on plankton and small fish and are completely harmless to humans. The common skate (Dipturus batis) is the largest skate in the world, reaching up to 250 cm in length with a life span of approximately 50 years.
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- The Expansion of Water Upon Freezing. The fact that water expands upon freezing causes icebergs to float. The fact that water reaches a maximum density at about 4°C causes bodies of water to freeze on the top first. Then the further expansion as a part of the phase change keeps the ice floating with some 8% of its mass above the surface.
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- The Uros islands float on Lake Titicaca, which according to Peru's tourism board, iPeru, is the world's highest navigable lake at over 4,000 meters above sea level.