Synopsis

This map visualizes the satellite-based iceberg tracking data available here. Some of the iceberg attributes including location have been interpolated. This is responsible for the small number of icebergs trekking across the continent that, alas, do not represent an untapped transportation resource. In cases where no size data is available for a given iceberg, its radius is taken to be the median iceberg size over all days and icebergs. Do not interpret the fact that the axes of all the icebergs align in this graphic to mean anything; there simply is no rotational orientation data. A small number of icebergs from the dataset that appear to have incorrect dates have been excluded. The letters a, b, c, d at the beginning of some of the icebergs' names correspond to origin quadrants.