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On 25 March 2022, it was reported that Conger Ice Shelf had collapsed around ten days earlier, as evidenced by satellite data. The collapse had not been anticipated by experts, although a gradual shrinking of the glacier had been observed since the mid-2000s, and a more rapid one since early 2020.
In mid-May 2021, A-76 was, before it broke into three, [1] the world's largest floating iceberg, calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The new iceberg, effectively a piece of floating ice shelf, detached from the western side of the ice shelf.
For the first time in human history, an ice shelf in East Antarctica has collapsed, scientists said Friday, as climate change shows no signs of slowing. Antarctic ice shelf the size of New York ...
The calving of A-68 reduced the overall size of the Larsen C shelf by 12 percent. [5] [6] Historical data shows that many icebergs that break off from the Antarctic Peninsula reach South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. [7] The name "A-68" was assigned by the US National Ice Center. It broke into parts with the mother berg dubbed A-68A.
Glenzer Glacier) is a glacier 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of Conger Glacier, draining northward from Knox Coast into the eastern part of the Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica It was mapped by G.D. Blodgett (1955) from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47).
Iceberg A-74 is an iceberg that calved from the north side of the Antarctic Brunt Ice Shelf in February 2021. Its calving had been anticipated due to large ice rifts that opened up in September 2019 and spread in the Antarctic summer of 2020–21. The iceberg measured 1,270 square kilometres (490 sq mi) soon after calving.
Iceberg B-9B colliding with the Mertz Glacier Tongue calving the Mertz iceberg, 20 February 2010. Iceberg B-9 was an iceberg that calved from Antarctica in 1987. [1] It measured 154 kilometres (96 mi) long and 35 kilometres (22 mi) wide; it had a total area of 5,390 square kilometres (2,080 sq mi), [1] and is one of the longest icebergs ever recorded. [1]
The Conger Range, also called the Conger Mountains, is a mountain range in Quttinirpaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, beginning about 16 km (10 mi) west of Mount Osborne. It is part of the Arctic Cordillera which is a vast dissected mountain system extending from Ellesmere Island to the northernmost tip of Labrador and ...