Manhattan-sized chunk of ice breaks away from Greenland glacier, forming icy island

Nypost · Aug 13, 2026 · 268 words · By FOX Weather

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Add The New York Post on Google An icy discovery was made by an international research team as they found that a large ice island, the size of Manhattan, had formed as a result of a glacier break.

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An international research team at the University of Ottawa reported that a chunk of the Peterman Glacier, over 45 miles long, broke apart, creating a large ice island the size of Manhattan in New York City.

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Claim 1: “Experts have been monitoring changes in the glacier since 2019”

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The claim that experts have been monitoring changes specifically since 2019 is only found in one source. Other sources mention monitoring since 2002 or general long-term trends.

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web search NEUTRAL — Petermann Glacier (Danish: Petermann Gletsjer) is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait.The Peterman glacier has shrunk several kilometers in length since 2002.[1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petermann_Glacier

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Claim 2: “Two more chunks of ice are expected to detach from the glacier soon, reducing its size by about 22%.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic Wikipedia entries for the number '2' and unrelated topics. No source in the provided evidence mentions two more chunks detaching or a 22% reduction in size.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Franz Josef Land (Russian: Земля́ Фра́нца-Ио́сифа, romanized: Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It is inhabited only by military personnel, and has never had a perma…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Petermann Glacier (Danish: Petermann Gletsjer) is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait. It connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean at 81°10' north l…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petermann_Glacier

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Claim 3: “An international research team at the University of Ottawa reported that a chunk of the Peterman Glacier, over 45 miles long, broke apart, creating a large ice island the size of Manhattan in New York City.”

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Multiple web search results independently report that a chunk of the Petermann Glacier, over 45 miles long, broke apart to create an ice island the size of Manhattan.

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web search NEUTRAL — Petermann Glacier is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait. It connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean at 81°10' north latitude, near Hans Island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petermann_Glacier

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Claim 4: “According to NASA, the ice shrinks by 150 to 180 gigatons a year on average”

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The claim is directly confirmed by NASA Science and corroborated by other news reports stating that Greenland's ice mass loss averages 150 to 180 gigatons per year.

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web search NEUTRAL — According to NASA, the ice shrinks by 150 to 180 gigatons a year on average (a gigaton is one billion metric tons). Farmers’ almanac releases 2026-2027 winter forecast: what they say to expect for blo…
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web search NEUTRAL — As data for additional years has become available all the NASA research community’s estimates are converging toward an average annual net loss of ice mass loss of 150 to 180 gigatons per year.
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web search NEUTRAL — According to NASA data cited in related reporting, Greenland’s ice shrinks by an average of 150 to 180 gigatons annually, with one gigaton equaling one billion metric tons.
https://www.newsdirectory3.com/manhattan-sized-ice-island-br…

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Claim 5: “the rare Arctic island is nearly 500 feet thick.”

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The specific detail that the ice island is 'nearly 500 feet thick' is only mentioned in one of the provided web search results. Other sources discuss size and area but not thickness.

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Claim 6: “This marks the largest loss of floating ice since 2012”

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Three independent web sources explicitly state that this event marks the largest loss of floating ice from the Petermann Glacier since 2012.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Petermann may refer to:
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