Near Giant Arctic Ice Break

Chunks of ice covering 251.2 sq km split from a glacier (the glacier) in the main area near the North Pole ahead of the weekend. For scientists, the fraction of ice was the biggest in the period of nearly half a century.

According to the daily pages of The Washington Post, the separation of ice bongkasan was recorded by the MODIS satellite owned by the United States Space Agency (NASA) and published Friday, August 6, 2010 local time.

Icebergs came from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. Danish autonomous territory that lies between the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean.

Given the large size, chunk of ice that form the 'new islands. " According to University of Delaware, it is the biggest chunk of ice split from its parent since 1962. The size is 40 percent bigger than the U.S. capital, Washington DC

The outbreak of chunks of ice around the North Pole is not a new phenomenon. However, based on its size, the phenomenon is usually more common in the South Pole than it is in the north.

Researchers from the University of Delaware, Andreas Muenchow, said that the floating ice was not necessarily linked to global warming. According to him, the cause could have been broken due to swift sea currents beneath the glacier.