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Internet Colors - Set of 1035
Iceberg Color 435 - #71A6D2
An iceberg is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or
an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. It may subsequently become
frozen into pack ice (one form of sea ice).
The word "iceberg" is a partial loan translation from Dutch ijsberg, literally
meaning ice mountain, cognate to Swedish isberg, Danish isbjerg, German
Eisberg, Low Saxon Iesbarg.
Because the density of pure ice is about 920 kg/m³, and that of sea water
about
1025 kg/m³, typically only one-ninth of the volume of an iceberg is above
water. The shape of the underwater portion can be difficult to judge by looking
at the portion above the surface.
The largest iceberg on record was an Antarctic tabular iceberg of over 12,000 sq.
mi. sighted 150 miles west of Scott Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, by the
USS Glacier on November 12, 1956. This iceberg was larger than Belgium.
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