Giant iceberg slams into glacial tongue

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the Reg: 'An iceberg the size of Long Island has collided with the Drygalski ice tongue in Antarctica, breaking off a sizeable chunk of the glacial outflow. Maps of the continent will, they say, have to be re-drawn.

The 115-kilometre-long berg crashed into the floating extension of the glacier on 15 April, tearing a five-kilometre chunk from the end of the protuberance. More than half the berg still has to clear the ice-tongue, and researchers expect the tongue will sustain more damage in the next few days...

'...The huge chunk of ice has played merry hell with the normal ocean currents, stopping much of the sea ice from breaking up during the Antarctic summer. This meant Emperor penguins had a longer-than-usual trek to and from the sea to gather food for their chicks, and McMurdo researchers had difficulty reaching their base.'