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Peter Wadhams
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LOCATION: Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Professor of ocean physics, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Author of Ice in the Ocean.

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iceberg
Iceberg, floating mass of freshwater ice that has broken from the seaward end of either a glacier or an ice shelf. Icebergs are found in the oceans surrounding Antarctica, in the seas of the Arctic and subarctic, in Arctic fjords, and in lakes fed by glaciers. Icebergs of the Antarctic calve from…
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