{"id":2183,"date":"2017-07-16T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2017-07-16T20:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T00:42:02","slug":"close-encounter-with-a-tabular-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/2017\/07\/close-encounter-with-a-tabular-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounter with a Tabular Iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just off the Antarctic Peninsula at 63\u00b00’58” S 57\u00b040’52” W, I encountered a tabular iceberg [an iceberg that looks like a huge tabletop]. By the position, I believe it to have been a fragment of the Larsen B Ice Shelf that broke up in 2002. But \u201cfragment\u201d doesn\u2019t do justice to what I saw. Picture New York\u2019s Central Park, made of ice, and 120 feet high.<\/p>\n

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To give you an idea of the scale, the Antarctic Petrels soaring in front of the leading edge of the berg have a wingspan of one meter! In order to take a photo of an entire side, I had to wait until our ship had steamed some miles past. The tabular iceberg that just separated from Larsen C is many orders of magnitude larger than the giant pictured here.<\/p>\n

My 20 days of fieldwork in the Antarctic was hosted by One Ocean Expeditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Just off the Antarctic Peninsula at 63\u00b00’58” S 57\u00b040’52” W, I encountered a tabular iceberg [an iceberg that looks like a huge tabletop]. By the position, I believe it to have been a fragment of the Larsen B Ice Shelf that broke up in 2002. But \u201cfragment\u201d doesn\u2019t do justice to what I saw. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,78,3,79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}