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I am going to need a bigger gin and tonic!

Scientists now have good numbers to describe the true scale of the world's biggest iceberg, A23a.

 

Satellite measurements show the frozen block has a total average thickness of just over 280m (920ft).

 

Combined with its known area of 3,900 sq km (1,500 sq miles), this gives a volume of roughly 1,100 cubic km and a mass just below a trillion tonnes.

 

An average ice cube weighs about 19 grams - so A23a would make roughly 52,631,578,900,000,000 ice cubes

 

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Uploaded on December 14, 2023
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