Antarctica Spawning Massive Iceberg

An iceberg the size of Berlin and as tall as an office building will soon sail away into the ocean.

A massive, 880-square-kilometre iceberg is about to break off of a glacier in Antarctica, providing yet another awe-inspiring example of the enormous power of nature. The iceberg, which is about the same size as the city of Berlin, is slowly breaking off from the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica, and is expected to entirely separate early next year. At that point, the 200-foot-deep iceberg will float its way through the south Atlantic as it slowly melts. Don't worry, though, scientists say that climate change or whatever doesn't have anything to do with the iceberg's formation – it's just the result of a 10-year-cycle of iceberg calving in that part of Antarctica. And while this iceberg is one big hunk of floating, ship-destroying ice, it's still nothing compared to the famed B-15, an iceberg the size of Jamaica that broke off the Antarctic coast in 2005. Parts of that iceberg, which originally weighed more than three billion tonnes, are still around today.