According to Wikipedia [1], an iceberg needs to be free floating. Otherwise, I would nominate the entire Ice sheet of the Artic as the largest ice berg in the world as there are no landmass like its southern cousin.
There is no provision in international law to claim an iceberg. It belongs to the country on which territorial waters it floats or to nobody if it is in international waters.
It would be fun if it decided to cross boundary between territorial waters and countries tried to literally drag it onto their territory each tugging by the piece on their side.
FYI California today is significantly wetter than California was a thousand years ago. Paleoclimatological studies have revealed that the past 150 years in California were unusually wet; they find tree trunks at the bottom of lakes and rivers, showing that those used to be dry land hundreds of years ago. California drying up now is a return to the baseline.
Bad news for those hoping the lush California their grandparents remember might be restored. It is very likely that California will continue to become much drier than anybody in living memory remembers.
No idea. But the interesting fact is, that regardless of the depth (assuming that iceberg was afloat already before the separation), it will not increase ocean level at all. Melting of on-land snow and ice/glaciers leads to global ocean level rise, not those icebergs afloat. Antarctica is a fascinating place: driest place on earth, so that grounding of any electrical equipment is needed (which is very challenging, since ice thinkness is of few kilometers).
While everything you said is correct, we should all be aware that the existence of floating ice tends to hold back the glaciers that are on land. Without the floating ice, those glaciers will flow more rapidly off into the ocean, and that will increase the average sea level.
Update: since Ronne Ice Shelf, from which A-76 separated, has ice thickness of about 150 meters [1], if A-76 has the same level above the water as the Ice shelf, about the same surface underwater (which likely is not the case, but good enough for this rough estimate), then 9/10 of the whole iceberg volume is underwater, meaning that the depth underwater is about 1.3 km. Though the area of the iceberg usually increases underwater and the depth in that place is just about 500m[2], so likely it is something like that.
The article didn't give any indication of how much was above water unfortunately. Someone else mentioned the main sheet is ~130m above the surface of the water, so that would give a depth of 1.5km!
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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Antarctica
[1] if it wouldn’t drown us all.
Rhode Island (US) is 0.86 times as big as Mallorca Island
https://mapfight.xyz/map/mallorca/#us.ri
(Skin area of a killer whale approximated as open ended cylinder 6.6 m long 0.92 m diameter: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28area+wales+in+squar... )
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I’d like to know how many Nissan Altima’s it is.
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It would be fun if it decided to cross boundary between territorial waters and countries tried to literally drag it onto their territory each tugging by the piece on their side.
Could you find a way to direct the ice melt in one direction to even make them self powered to get where you want them?
Bad news for those hoping the lush California their grandparents remember might be restored. It is very likely that California will continue to become much drier than anybody in living memory remembers.
[1] https://www.britannica.com/place/Ronne-Ice-Shelf
[2] https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/453/2018/tc-12-453-201...
How long will that take to melt? Years?