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Not so long ago, we wrote that the American national space agency discovered in the ice of Antarctica a hundred-meter crack. It originated on the Larsen C. Glacier. By According to scientists, already in the coming summer there will be a split, and from The glacier will separate an enormous iceberg. Its area will be more than six and a half thousand square kilometers! But that’s not all that global warming has prepared for us.
British researchers also decided to be vigilant and explored Antarctica with the help of numerous drones. results were disappointing. One of the drones recorded on Brant’s ice shelf is a new huge crack. She like it turned out threatening to destroy the Antarctic research Halley VI station owned by the United Kingdom and standing close to this crack.
UK Antarctic Directorate Decides Temporarily close the station for the purpose of its further transfer. On the the northwest of the sixth mainland is no longer safe, regret scientists report. However, perhaps soon it will become generally it is unsafe to be in Antarctica as a whole, and therefore it will affect all countries with research stations on this mainland, in including Russia.
The length of the new crack is about forty kilometers, and she was no more than twenty miles from the British station. “Halley VI “, named after the English mathematician and astronomer Edmund Hallea, has been working here since February 2012. It is believed that polar researchers are unlikely to fall under the ice, but they face find yourself on a breakaway iceberg. Very soon to Antarctica powerful tractors will be delivered, which will drag scientific observation post in a safer and optimal for such goals place.
Icebergs Antarctica
