Seriously, it is B-15A, a 71 mile long iceberg that collided with Antarctica and broke off a city-sized chunk of the continent, forcing maps of the bottom of the world to be redrawn.
click here for big photo The iceberg slammed into the Drygalski ice tongue, which sticks out into the McMurdo Sound on the Ross Sea. The tongue is about 44 miles long. Or at least it was.
Scientists predict that more collisions between B-15A and Drygalski are possible.
The back history of the iceberg makes for fascinating reading at livescience.com
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