It's called A68 and it's one of the biggest icebergs ever seen: it's the result of the detachment of a piece of ice almost as big as Liguria from the Larsen C Ice Shelf along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The news was reported by researchers from the English University of Swansea who have been monitoring the phenomenon since 2014. The separation was long overdue, the last 13 km of the fracture occurred in the last 30 days.
The iceberg, whose drift will be monitored by researchers, it weighs about 1000 billion tons with an area of almost 6.000 square km. Adrian Luckman, a researcher at Swansea University, said researchers would continue to "monitor the fate of this huge iceberg".
