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The only piece of wreckage ever recovered was a lifebuoy which washed ashore on Iceland and was discovered on 7 October 1959, some nine months after the ship sank. [5] The ship sank with parish registers from parishes of Greenland, which were meant to be deposited in archives in Denmark, causing a major loss for Greenlandic genealogy .
Date Ship name Deaths 2007 Explorer: 0 1991 Finnpolaris: 0 1977 William Carson: 0 1959 Hans Hedtoft: 95 (all) 1923 Le Raymound: 2+ 1912 Titanic: 1496 1901
Iceberg A23a is a large tabular iceberg which calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. It was stuck on the sea bed for many years but then started moving in 2020. As of January 2025, its area is about 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi), which makes it the current largest iceberg in the world.
It's iceberg season in eastern Canada and photographer Kalen Poole took his drone out on its first flight off the coast of southern Labrador, where it captured incredible footage of an iceberg ...
The world's largest iceberg is on the move after spinning for months in a Taylor Column.
Meijers got a close-up look at the iceberg while on a research ship in 2023. “The iceberg itself is colossal and it stretches from horizon to horizon,” he said.
She was the first cruise ship to sink there, [3] after striking an iceberg on 23 November 2007. All passengers and crew were rescued. [4] The ship was commissioned and operated by the Swedish explorer Lars-Eric Lindblad. Its 1969 expeditionary cruise to Antarctica was the forerunner for today's sea-based tourism in that region.
The world's largest iceberg is on the move for the first time in more than three decades, scientists said on Friday. At almost 4,000 square km (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called ...