Giant Iceberg Spotted South of Australia

On Wednesday, the scientists said that a immense iceberg, possibly twice the Hong Kong island size, has been observed travelling nearer towards the south of Australia. The scientist said that this sort of incident occurs just about once in a century.

Neal Young, an Australian glaciologist with a satellite imaginary, found that the monster iceberg which is travelling closer is about 1,700 kilometres away from the south of Australia and is about 19 kilometres large. He said that the ice berg is perhaps 140 square kilometres i.e. 54 square miles. And, the surface area of Hong Kong Island is around 80 square kilometres which is nearly half of the iceberg perceived. So, imagine how huge the iceberg would be.

He also said that ever since 19th century the clipper ships are drifting in that trade way between Australia and Britain, but they have never observed or noted such a huge iceberg in that area. Neal Young from the Australian Antarctic division and a member of Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre said to AFP that he didn’t aware of any such event happening from long time.

The glaciologist said that the iceberg observed maybe carved out from the Antarctic just about 10 years ago and is bit by bit floating around in an extraordinary route. He said that initially it was a very large iceberg almost 400 square kilometres and has been split into two or many chunks. This chunk of iceberg has been floating in the open ocean from various years. And in the ocean, it is bit by bit floating in the north or north east direction and is coming nearer to the south of Australia.

This iceberg comes to be known when two icebergs not so immense like this one, were found further in the east in the Macquarie Island of Australia, and more than 100 smaller ice lumps. 

Neal young said that this is an uncommon situation but can be more recurrent, if the sea temperature goes on uprising due to global warming.