page_title: Iceberg B-15
section_title: Satellite images
hierarchical_section_title: Iceberg B-15 / Satellite images
caption_attribution_description: English: An iceberg about the size of the Hawaiian island of Maui has split into three pieces in the frigid Antarctic waters, the National Ice Center reported this week. Using satellite imagery from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, the NIC discovered that the larger iceberg, named B-15A, calved into three smaller icebergs: B-15M, B-15N and B-15P. Two of the larger icebergs (B-15M and B-15N) are about the size of Grand Cayman and St. Croix, respectively.
context_page_description: Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. It measured around 295 kilometres long and 37 kilometres wide, with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres —larger than the whole island of Jamaica. Calved from the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica in March 2000, Iceberg B-15 broke up into smaller icebergs, the largest of which was named Iceberg B-15A. In 2003, B-15A drifted away from Ross Island into the Ross Sea and headed north, eventually breaking up into several smaller icebergs in October 2005. As of 2018, a large piece of the original iceberg was steadily moving northward, located between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island.
caption: Iceberg B-15 after break-up, showing B-15M, B-15N, and B-15P, 31 October 2005 (DMSP)
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