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A long smooth section of ice just right of the center of the image is the massive C-19 iceberg. The iceberg, which broke from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in May 2002, is trapped by sea ice along the George V coast, the section of Antarctica near Australia, in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) taken by the Terra satellite on March 1, 2004. When it formed, C-19 was larger than the state of Delaware at 32 km (almost 20 miles) wide and 200 km (124 miles) long. It was not as large as the B-15 iceberg that broke off of the same ice shelf in 2001, but it is among the largest icebergs ever recorded.
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published March 24, 2004 Data acquired March 1, 2004