{"id":144704,"date":"2026-08-13T00:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/144704\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:35:22","slug":"chunk-of-ice-the-size-of-manhattan-breaks-away-from-a-glacier-in-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/144704\/","title":{"rendered":"Chunk of ice the size of Manhattan breaks away from a glacier in Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A video provided by the National Weather Service office in Juneau, Alaska, shows scientists flying above the Mendenhall Glacier on Tuesday, Aug. 12, before the glacial lake outburst flooding.<\/p>\n

GREENLAND \u2013 An icy discovery was made by an international<\/a> research team as they found that a large ice island, the size of Manhattan, had formed as a result of a glacier break.<\/p>\n

An international research team at the University of Ottawa reported that a chunk of the Peterman Glacier, over 45 miles long, broke apart, creating a large ice island the size of Manhattan in New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This marks the largest loss of floating ice since 2012, as the rare Arctic island is nearly 500 feet thick.<\/p>\n

\"Satellite <\/p>\n

Satellite imagery of the Peterman Glacier.<\/p>\n

(Adam Garbo \/ University of Ottawa)<\/p>\n

Experts have been monitoring changes in the glacier since 2019 and have expected the break to happen for the last few years, noting it won\u2019t be the last either.<\/p>\n

Being able to observe and study the partial cracks and breakage of the glacier allows for a better understanding of the processes that shape glacier retreat, ocean<\/a> conditions and ice hazards in polar regions, according to the Department of Geography at the University of Ottawa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"PETERMANN <\/p>\n

PETERMANN GLACIER, GREENLAND – JULY 19, 2012: \u00a0This is a satellite image of a massive iceberg calving from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland, collected on July 19, 2012. \u00a0<\/p>\n

(DigitalGlobe \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Two more chunks of ice are expected to detach from the glacier soon, reducing its size by about 22%.<\/p>\n

According to NASA<\/a>, the ice shrinks by 150 to 180 gigatons a year on average (a gigaton is one billion metric tons).<\/p>\n

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\"The <\/p>\n

The Peterman Glacier on July 5, 2003.<\/p>\n

(NASA)<\/p>\n

These chunks of ice can float for years, posing hazards to vessels and marine environments.<\/p>\n

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Experts will continue to monitor the development of the Peterman Glacier<\/a> and the chunks of ice that break away by using satellite imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A video provided by the National Weather Service office in Juneau, Alaska, shows scientists flying above the Mendenhall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[69076,57,12851,54,5332,65382,1827,39547],"class_list":["post-144704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-earth-space","tag-greenland","tag-nature","tag-ocean","tag-outdoors","tag-stay22","tag-world","tag-world-regions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117085400294471110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}