Did you know that icebergs are given names, and that
these names relate to the section of Antartica where they are first sited?

US scientists recently reported that an iceberg more
over nine times the size of Singapore had broken off Antarctica. It is
over 64 kilometers (40 miles) wide and 85 kilometers (53 miles) long,
and covers an area of about 5,500 square kilometers.

The National Ice Center said the berg, named B-22, broke
free from an ice tongue in the Amundson Sea, an area of Antarctica south
of the Pacific Ocean.

The B designation covers the Amundson and eastern Ross
seas and the 22 indicates it is the 22nd iceberg sighted there by the
US National Ice Center.

The iceberg broke off as a result of climate warming.
One UK glaciologist at the Bas in Cambridge said “[It is hard] to
believe that 500 million billion tons of ice sheet has disintegrated in
less than a month.”