Its surface area spans 4,320 square kilometres (1,668 square miles) and measures 175 kilometres (106 miles) long by 25 kilometres (15 miles) wide. That makes it three-quarters the size of P.E.I., which has an area of 5,660 square kilometres, and larger than Spain's tourist island of Majorca in the Mediterranean, which occupies 3,640 square kilometres (1,405 square miles). The U.S. state of Rhode Island is smaller still, with a land mass of just 2,678 square kilometres (1,034 square miles). The iceberg is about three-quarters the size of Prince Edward Island. Scambos said the Ronne and another vast ice shelf, the Ross, have "behaved in a stable, quasi-periodic fashion" over the past century or more.

Source: CBC News May 20, 2021 12:33 UTC