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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.