The breakaway of this section has been expected for a while, so its eventual occurrence comes as no surprise. Bigg, an emeritus professor of Earth system science at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., told Newsweek. "Large ice sheets around Antarctica do occasionally calve large icebergs, just as part of the natural process of the ice moving towards the sea," Grant R. Coastal temperatures can rise as high as 50 F in summer months. It holds the record for the coldest place on planet Earth, with temperatures of -128.6 F having been measured on July 21, 1983, on the Antarctic Plateau, at the then-Soviet-operated Vostok station. Antarctica is considered a desert, receiving only around 8 inches of precipitation each year at the coasts, with even less inland. Geological Survey.Īntarctica is the coldest and driest continent on Earth, containing around 70 percent of the planet's freshwater frozen inside enormous ice sheets. British Antarctic Survey / NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. The exact shape of the new iceberg will be confirmed by satellite in the coming days. A picture of the Brunt ice shelf (left) and a satellite image of the shelf from space, with the rough area of the new iceberg that broke off drawn on in red, following the path of Chasm-1.
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