The largest iceberg has fallen off the coast of Antarctica …

The largest iceberg in the world, located northwest of Antarctica, the ice floe broke Roone. The iceberg covers an area of ​​4,320 square kilometers and is monitored by satellite images.

The iceberg, which was named A-76, It is 170 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide, with a total area of ​​4,320 kilometers, noted the European Space Agency (ESA). The surface of the ice giant is much larger than that of any Argentinian city. Just to get an idea, the city of Buenos Aires is barely 200 square kilometers; in other words, the iceberg is 20 times bigger.

With these proportions, it is the largest iceberg in the world, a post which until now had A-23A, of approximately 3,880 square kilometers.

The large floating mass in the Weddell Sea has been detected by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, made up of two polar orbiting satellites observing Antarctica, even its remote areas, all year round.

Icebergs are named after the Antarctic quadrant in which they were originally sighted, followed by a sequential letter. If the ice mass breaks later, as sometimes happens, each piece adds a sequential letter to its name.