Petermann Ice Island - Now There Are Two

Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 00:49 in Earth & Climate

Petermann Ice Island - Now There Are two Petermann Ice Island (2010) has now broken into two parts.   The smaller island is about 80 km2.  It is the thinner of the two and is likely to melt away first.  Based on the labels already in use in comments1, I shall designate the larger island as Petermann 2010-A and the smaller one as Petermann 2010-B. Petermann Ice Islands A and B read more

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