经过多年的预测和监测，一座名为 A-81 的巨型冰山从南极洲的布伦特冰架上脱离。这块巨大的冰山面积为 1,550 平方公里（600 平方英里），大约是马耳他岛面积的五倍，当被称为 Chasm-1 的裂缝向北延伸，切断了冰架的很大一部分时，这块巨大的冰山最终崩裂。

The most important research focuses on climate change,including-measuring changes in the ice-cap(because of effects on sea levels and) •monitoring the hole in the ozone layer •analysing air from ...

Exceptional sea ice break-up last year, meant they could survey over 2,000 square kilometres of the sea floor in front of the Thwaites ice shelf.