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the diva of the ocean, hiding ninety percent of itself just to ruin your maiden voyage.
means A massive floating chunk of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or ice shelf, with most of its bulk hidden beneath the waterline.
from A loan from Dutch or a related Germanic tongue — Dutch 'ijsberg' literally means 'ice mountain,' from 'ijs' (ice) plus 'berg' (mountain), the same 'berg' you hear in iceberg's cousin 'glacier' country and in mountain names across the North Sea. English sailors hauled the word aboard in the 18th century, and it has been calving off icy peril into our vocabulary ever since.
- hidden bulk
- Roughly 90 percent lurks beneath the waterline.
- freshwater
- Made of pressed snow, not frozen seawater.
- loud death
- They fizz and crack as ancient trapped air escapes.
- long memory
- Some hold ice over 100,000 years old.
- world traveler
- Antarctic giants can drift for years before melting.
titanic — sank after hitting iceberg in north atlantic on april 15, 1912, killing 1,500 people
petermann glacier calving 2012 — released 46-square-mile iceberg from northwest greenland, largest in 150 years
a68a — massive iceberg that broke from larsen c ice shelf antarctica in 2017, drifted toward south georgia