ICE LOSS FROM GREENLAND’S ICE SHEET
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FIGURE 14.23 A large ice island of approximately 120 km2 broke off from the Petermann Glacier on Greenland on July 16, 2012.
(NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team)