List of recorded icebergs by area

This is a list of icebergs by total area.

In 1956, an iceberg in the Antarctic was reported to be an estimated 333 kilometres (207 mi) long and 100 kilometres (62 mi) wide. Recorded before the era of satellite photography, the 1956 iceberg's estimated dimensions are less reliable.^[1]

Iceberg	Maxi­mum surface (km^2)	Maxi­mum length (km)	Maxi­mum width (km)	Year recor­ded	Picture	Refe­rence
B-15	11,007	295	37	2000	Iceberg B-15A drifting toward the Drygalski Ice Tongue prior to the collision, 2 January 2005 (NASA)	[1][2]
A-38	6,900	144	48	1998	The split of the A38-B iceberg is recorded in this series of images. The iceberg was originally part of the massive A-38 iceberg, which broke from the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica	[3]
B-15A	6,400			2002	Northern edge of Iceberg B-15A in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, 29 January 2002
A-68	5,800	175	50	2017	Calving crack in the Larsen C ice shelf	[2][4][5]
C-19	5,500	200	32	2002	Iceberg C-19 breaking off from the Ross Ice Shelf, 11 May 2002, image:DMSP.	[6]
B-9	5,390	154	35	1987	Iceberg B-9B colliding with the Mertz Glacier Tongue calving the Mertz iceberg, 20 February 2010
A-76	4,320	170	25	2021	Calving and size compared to Mallorca	-
A23a	4,000	74	63	2021		[14]
D-28	1,636	62 approx	30 approx	2019	The D-28 iceberg breaking off, September 2019
A-81	1,550			2023		[15]
A-74	1,270	56	33	2021	A-74 soon after calving	[16][17]
B-31	660	39	22	2013	B31 shown at the lower right.	[18]
D-16	310	28	15	2006		[19]
Petermann Ice Island (2010)	260			2010	Natural-colour satellite image of the ice island that calved off the glacier on August 5, 2010.
B-44	256			2017	Radar imagery captured by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-1 on September 23, 2017, showed an early view of the new iceberg.	[20][21]
B-17B	140			1999	NOAA satellite image of Iceberg B-17B, December 11, 2009.

References

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7. "Meet the world's largest iceberg".
8. "World's largest iceberg breaks off from Antarctica". CNN. 19 May 2021.
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10. "World's biggest iceberg, dubbed A-76, spotted by satellite after calving from Antarctica - ABC News". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 May 2021.
11. "World's largest iceberg, bigger than Majorca, breaks off from Antarctica". Independent.co.uk. 20 May 2021.
12. "Neuer weltgrößter Eisberg in Antarktis - Fläche übertrifft Mallorca". MSN.
13. Sydney, Bernard Lagan. "World's largest iceberg breaks away from Antarctica".
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15. Hauser, Jennifer (January 25, 2023). "Iceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica". CNN. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
16. "Iceberg A-74 Press Release". National Ice Center. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
17. "Breakup at Brunt". NASA Earth Observatory. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
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19. New City-sized Iceberg Created Near Antarctica. LiveScience, 27 March 2006.
20. "B44 in der Westantarktis: Erneut großer Eisberg abgebrochen". SPIEGEL ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 2017-10-01.
21. NASA (2017-09-28). "The Quick Demise of B-44 : Image of the Day". Retrieved 2018-01-04.