• Question: How do icebergs form?

    Asked by elliejayne to Aime, Akshat, Diana, Gemma, Judith on 23 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Judith McCann

      Judith McCann answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Icebergs are break offs from polar ice, There is a whole area of science study of them because they need to know how they behave in order to monitor travel routes for ships. It is normal for polar ice to break down every year in summer and reform again in colder months, icebergs are particularly large chunks that break off, they generally melt as they travel, but they can reach really far south!!don’t worry only around 1% ever make it to anywhere near the shipping channels!

    • Photo: Akshat Rathi

      Akshat Rathi answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      Isn’t that cool! Nice answer Judith.

      Apparently, the southernmost iceberg ever reported in the Northern Hemisphere was spotted at latitude 30ยบ, 150 miles from Bermuda, in 1926.

      That is quite a distance to travel for an iceberg from the North Pole.

    • Photo: Gemma Sharp

      Gemma Sharp answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      Good pun Akshat (although I think it might’ve been unintentional… Still, I’d take it if I were you!)

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