Thwaites Ice Tongue

The Thwaites Ice Tongue (74º00´S 108º30´W) is a large sheet of glacial ice and snow extending from the Antarctic mainland into the southern Amundsen Sea.

On 15 March 2002, the National Ice Center reported that an iceberg named B-22 broke off from the ice tongue. The berg measured about 46 nautical miles long and 35 nautical miles wide, with a total area of some 2,120 square statute miles. As of 2003, B-22 had broken into five pieces, with B-22A still in the vicinity of the tongue, while the other pieces were much smaller and had drifted considerably west.

External link

• NIC listing of current Antarctic iceberg positions (http://www.natice.noaa.gov/southbergs.htm#icebergchart)