Massive iceberg drifts into backyard of Australian Antarctica station

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2005

SYDNEY (AFP) — An iceberg over twice the size of Malta has drifted hundreds of kilometres to a position off the coast of Australia's Casey station in Antarctica.

Named B15G, the 50-kilometre (31 mile) iceberg is part of a massive ice formation that broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in March 2000, the Department of Environment and Heritage said in a statement.

"As the Antarctic winter closes in, B15G appears as a grey line occupying ninety degrees of arc and defining half our horizon, in places gleaming where the sun reflects off an ice cliff," station leader Dr. Jeremy Smith said in the statement.

"But often it is sulking in shadow and difficult to distinguish from the sky in the background."

In the past few months B15G, which is 788...