Current* Antarctic large iceberg positions derived from QuikSCAT**
* Last revised: 10:39:20 11/13/09
**Operational users please note: This list cannot
possibly contain all potentially hazardous icebergs in Antarctic
waters -- QuikSCAT was designed for measuring ocean winds, not icebergs.
QuikSCAT's serrindipitous utility for iceberg tracking has proven
useful, but is not perfect: Smaller bergs (less than 5 km) cannot
be reliably tracked and loss of contrast due to surface melting
can result in loss of track for larger icebergs. Futher, as the
SCP team is not an operational agency, errors are expected and we
cannot be held responsible for omissions or errors in this database.
Also note that the large icebergs tracked here tend to shed smaller
iceberg fragments which are serious navigation hazards in nearby
areas. Fragments (large and small) can drift substantial distances
from their origins.
This information supplements the
Antarctic Iceberg Webpage
maintained by the U.S. National Ice Center (NIC).
If an inconsistency is observed, we recommend that NIC be
considered authoritative.
This page is typically updated once or twice a week, typically on Mondays and Fridays.
Positions reported here are extracted from near real-time QuikSCAT data. Positions reported
in the full iceberg database are generated from science data and have been more accurately tracked.
The full database is updated only a few times per year
| Iceberg*** | Longitude | Lattitude |
Most recent observation
(day of year, 2009****) |
| A23a | 41 26'W | 76 4'S | 316 |
| A27 | 42 46'W | 75 25'S | 316 |
| A43d | 58 9'W | 70 32'S | 316 |
| A55 | 55 13'W | 63 59'S | 315 |
| B09b | 148 34'E | 67 10'S | 316 |
| B15b | 59 7'E | 66 14'S | 316 |
| B15f | 7 27'E | 69 44'S | 316 |
| B15g | 48 12'E | 66 26'S | 316 |
| B15j | 146 58'E | 65 43'S | 316 |
| B15k | 0 16'E | 69 38'S | 316 |
| B15l | 33 56'W | 59 54'S | 316 |
| B15n | 79 10'E | 60 59'S | 316 |
| B15r | 55 42'E | 65 33'S | 316 |
| B15s | 127 50'E | 65 4'S | 316 |
| B15t | 53 21'E | 65 26'S | 316 |
| B16 | 125 30'E | 65 23'S | 316 |
| B17a | 100 9'E | 64 23'S | 316 |
| B17b | 105 48'E | 52 4'S | 309 |
| B21a | 110 10'W | 72 46'S | 316 |
| B22a | 108 18'W | 74 22'S | 316 |
| C14a | 146 43'E | 67 20'S | 316 |
| C15 | 146 47'E | 67 35'S | 316 |
| C16 | 90 37'E | 65 32'S | 316 |
| C18a | 40 8'W | 56 26'S | 316 |
| C18b | 116 18'E | 65 24'S | 314 |
| C19c | 11 54'W | 71 0'S | 316 |
| C21B | 95 58'E | 64 57'S | 316 |
| C24 | 96 44'E | 64 38'S | 316 |
| C8 | 38 55'W | 60 13'S | 316 |
| D14 | 75 4'E | 69 23'S | 316 |
| D15 | 81 39'E | 66 53'S | 316 |
| uk145 | 57 58'E | 66 27'S | 316 |
| uk157 | 47 24'W | 73 3'S | 316 |
| uk164 | 115 25'E | 65 40'S | 316 |
| uk172 | 150 2'E | 66 53'S | 316 |
| uk174 | 113 59'E | 65 26'S | 316 |
| uk187 | 43 10'E | 67 36'S | 314 |
| uk192 | 129 19'E | 65 45'S | 316 |
| uk193 | 110 44'W | 73 4'S | 316 |
| uk249 | 76 38'E | 69 5'S | 316 |
| uk251 | 110 23'E | 65 51'S | 315 |
| uk272 | 111 42'W | 72 43'S | 309 |
| uk276 | 60 48'W | 65 21'S | 316 |
| uk284 | 37 2'W | 59 5'S | 316 |
| uk289 | 79 36'E | 66 39'S | 316 |
| uk290 | 58 40'W | 68 54'S | 316 |
| uk291 | 119 44'W | 72 54'S | 316 |
| uk292 | 47 19'W | 74 53'S | 316 |
| uk293 | 52 5'W | 72 48'S | 314 |
| uk294 | 51 43'W | 74 54'S | 316 |
| uk295 | 57 45'E | 66 2'S | 316 |
| uk93 | 80 48'E | 66 31'S | 316 |
*** National Ice Center (NIC) iceberg
designations are used where possible. Additional fragments are
numbered. Icebergs not designated by NIC are denoted as "uk".
Fragments not separately tracked by NIC may have additional
numbers following their designation.
**** UTC day-of-year.
Day of year chart
BYU
Antarctic Iceberg Database - Comprehensive historic
database of Antarctic iceberg positions derived from enhanced
resolution scatterometer image time series spanning from 1978
through the present.
Paper (620 kB pdf) on
QuikSCAT Iceberg tracking.
(D.G. Long, Jarom Ballantyne, and C. Bertoia, "Is the Number of Icebergs
Really Increasing?" EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union,
Vol. 83, No. 42, pp 469 & 474, 15 Oct. 2002)
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