Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica

The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has recently produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years.

• The calved block covers 1,636 sq km in area - a little smaller than Scotland’s Isle of Skye - and is called D28.
• The scale of the berg means it will have to be monitored and tracked because it could in future pose a hazard to shipping.
• Not since the early 1960s has Amery calved a bigger iceberg. That was a whopping 9,000 sq km in area.
• Amery is the third largest ice shelf in Antarctica, and is a key drainage channel for the east of the continent.