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Icebergs form when layers of snow build up on the Antarctic continent and are then compressed into ice by their own weight into glacial ice. This iceberg is a piece of glacier that has broken off and is floating 100 miles out to sea. You can still see the layers representing thousands of years of winter snow. Aboard the icebreaker Oden.

Credit to read: Photo by Jeff Peneston (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Jeff Peneston
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