Katie Stallard in Sky News: An ice island with an area of 100 square miles (260 square km) has broken off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers in an event that is the biggest of its kind for nearly 50 years. A chunk of ice was predicted to come away from the Petermann Glacier - of the two largest remaining ones in Greenland - but never at this scale.The 600ft (180m)-thick island, which broke off on Thursday, will enter a remote place called the Nares Strait, about 620 miles south of the North Pole between Greenland and Canada. Icebergs can make negotiating the waters around Greenland a very hazardous business, as Sky News discovered during a flight with the Greenland Ice Patrol.
They are the Arctic's fourth emergency service, covering a stretch of coastline 400km long, including the latest breakaway from the Petermann Glacier…...
A generic shot of a glacier in Greenland, shot by Mila Zinkova, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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