Antarctic iceberg the size of Chicago breaks off, reveals thriving undersea ecosystem

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1. The seafloor beneath, previously covered by 209 square miles of ice, had never before been accessible to humans. A team of researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institutes R/V Falkor (too) oceanographic research vessel were working in the Bellingshausen Sea, on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, but dropped everything to make their way to the ice shelf. The pivot was described as a “serendipitous moment’ by Schmidt Ocean Institute Executive Director Jyotika Virmani.

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