A VAST ICE SHELF IN ANTARCTICA HAS COLLAPSED AND IS NOW FLOATING FREEL...

World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00

A vast ice shelf in Antarctica has collapsed and is now floating freely in the Amundsen Sea south of the Pacific Ocean, scientists say. The huge iceberg, bigger than Cyprus and nine times the size of Singapore, broke away from the main land mass on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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