3rd biggest iceberg splits off Antarctica

CAIRO Sept 11 (SEE): Satellite images showed that the one trillion ton iceberg which broke free from Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf last year, broke away from the Antarctica. Scientists fear its future impacts on global sea levels since  it made a 90-degree turn into the north.

Scientists revealed an ocean hidden for 120,000 years underneath the third biggest iceberg ever recorded.

“It has a spectacular amount of momentum and it’s not going to be stopped easily, i should think we will see some interesting collisions with the ice shelf in the next few months," Polar oceanographer Mark Brandon who spotted the movement using temperature data collected by the Suomi NPP satellite said.

He added on his website, “My guess is that A68 will continue rotating as it is now around that western point, until what is currently the northern edge collides with the Larsen C ice front."

A group led by the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will study tiny animals, microbes and plankton on the seafloor to keep up with environmental changes.