Mammoth Slab Of Ice Breaks Free From Frozen Edge Of Antarctica

The world’s largest iceberg, about four times larger than New York City has been spotted.

The European Space Agency said the mammoth slab of ice broke free from the frozen edge of Antarctica.

The iceberg named A-76 is also bigger than the Spanish tourist island of Majorca, with a surface area of around four-thousand-three-hundred-20 square kilometers.

It was first discovered by the British Antarctic Survey and was later confirmed using imagery from Copernicus Sentinel-one, which consists of two polar-orbiting satellites.

Although the dislodging of large ice chunks is part of a natural polar cycle, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center says some ice shelves along the Antarctic peninsula have broken up faster in recent years.

Some scientists believe that the rapid disintegration is related to global warming.