One of the world’s biggest ever icebergs – about the quarter the size of Wales or four times the size of London – has broken off from Antarctica.

The massive berg, calved from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, is about 6,000 square kilometres in size.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/antarctic-iceberg-splits-larsen-c-ice-shelf-half-size-wales-a7836736.html