Shelf-Iceberg with penguins, North of South Orkney Islands
It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles) and contains 26.5 million cubic kilometres. That is, approximately 61 percent of all fresh water on the Earth is held in the Antarctic ice sheet, an amount equivalent to about 58 m of sea-level rise.
Year: 2014
From album: Antarctica Tourism
Photographer: Peter Prokosch