Ever heard of iceberg A23a?  It calved in 1986 and is now the  largest , verified by Guinness World Records. 263 cubic miles. 40 nautical miles by 32 nautical miles space. In 2021,  iceberg A-76  broke off from the Ronne Ice Shelf off the Weddell Sea, and was larger, but soon fractured. But the absolute largest was Iceberg B-15, about the size of Jamaica.  Calved from the Ross Ice Shelf, also Antarctica, on March 2000.  There is still a small piece, B-15AB that has grounded in the western sector of Antarctica's Amery region. About A23a, it is twice the size of Greater London, UK. Detached from the  Antarctica Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. Was for a long time stuck on the sea-floor of the Weddell Sea, but in 2013 began wandering north toward the South Georgia Island of the Southern Ocean. There are, of course, other icebergs in the Atlantic off Antarctica. Here are the  icebergs just from Greenland. The town of Ilulissat on the shores of Disko Bay in...

Today, our cruise on the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton to New York City, actually, Brooklyn.  A few things about Cunard. Has been sailing for 184 years.   Founded by Sir Samuel  Cunard  to provide transatlantic service in 1840 with the Britannia He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1787.  His father fled the American Revolution because he was a Loyalist to the British Crown. By 1900, Cunard advertised their ships as floating palaces, and shared design features similar to The Ritz. Lusitania and Mauretania had revolutionary steam engines, where the first ship to shore by Marconi wireless transmission was made on them. The Lusitania was sunk by a German-U-boat killing 1195 people in 1915, leading to the U.S. joining World War I. When the Titanic sank in 1912, Cunard's Carpathia arrived to rescue the survivors. In the late 20's/30's, Cunard got loan guarantees from the British government, merged with its rival White Star Line and launched the Queen Mary and ...