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Gargantuan ice cube heading into north Atlantic
Baku, February 27 (AZERTAC). It`s an awe-inspiring site: A 12-mile-wide ice floe broke apart from the Petermann Glacier off Greenland 11 months ago and now it`s heading into the north Atlantic. This ice island, as wide as the nation island of Grenada, was photographed recently by NASA`s Aqua satellite. It is estimated to weigh between 3.5 and 4 billion tons.
Still unclear is whether this gargantuan cube of ice will present a danger to offshore oil rips to sea shipping lanes off Newfoundland. In the meantime, it`s very much the tourist curiosity. The above video was taken by fisherman when the ice floe was still close to the coast of Labrador. You can track its journey through a page that receives regular updates from a beacon left on the floe by Environment Canada.