Radar images capture new Antarctic mega-iceberg
Spacecraft that can see through cloud get their first good look at the frozen block known as A74. …
“In contrast, on the western Brunt, where the Halley research station is located, there are no direct observational records of a major calving event of this size since the station was erected in the 1950s. However, comparing the 1915 Frank Worsley map, produced during Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, with the calving front position in 1955, indicates the western Brunt ice shelf must have calved sometime between 1915 and 1955.
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