berg

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This was meant to put boosters on the near-trillion-tonne berg, rifling it up into the South Atlantic and certain oblivion.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024

Milder air temperatures will create surface melt ponds that drain through the berg, helping to open up fractures.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

But that was before a mammoth berg started meandering northward from Antarctica.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Experts feared that the mighty berg would become trapped on the surrounding seafloor, like B-22A, and that its cooling effect would drastically impact the ecosystem there.

From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2023

Shackleton, Wild, and Worsley kept a lookout from the highest point on their berg, a twenty-foot-tall knoll.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong