FLOATING ICE CUBE AS BIG AS DEVON
Weighs 1,000,000,000,000 tons Equivalent to 37,000,000,000,000,000 (37 quadrillion) ice cubes
It covers an area of 2,600 sq miles – roughly the size of Devon or South Georgia itself Is only 200 metres deep It’s 125 miles from South Georgia and moving at around 1mph.
It will take ten years to melt if it runs aground off South Georgia.
The largest recorded iceberg, in 2000, was 4,200 square miles – roughly the size of Yorkshire – but it broke up and melted away.