The world’s largest iceberg melts: it was 6,000 square kilometres in size
The world’s largest iceberg, which became a social media star and was known as A68, has melted, the BBC reports. It was about 6,000 square kilometres in size, weighed nearly a billion tonnes and broke off from Antarctica in 2017. According to the US National Ice Center it has now shattered into thousands of small pieces that are no longer worth monitoring.