PenguinTracker / Icebergs / A81
Iceberg A81
Tabular iceberg · last fix 08/13/2026
Iceberg A81 covers 1,342 km² and was last fixed at 59°11'S 51°14'W on 08/13/2026. That makes it the 3rd largest of the 33 icebergs the US National Ice Center currently tracks, carrying 10.9% of all tracked berg area.
Area1,342 km²
Rank by area3rd of 33 tracked
Share of tracked ice10.9%
Last fix08/13/2026
Position59°11'S 51°14'W
Decimal-59.190, -51.230
Distance to pole3,426 km
Treaty areanorth of 60°S
How it got its name
The letter records the quadrant the berg was first sighted in — A is 0–90°W, the Bellingshausen and Weddell seas — and the number is issued in sequence. A trailing letter marks a fragment that broke off a parent berg, so this one has not been logged as a fragment.
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Nearest stations
A81 at its last fix. Rings are 60°, 70° and 80°S.
Within 520 km. Blue dots are other tracked bergs, orange are stations.
Positions are refixed weekly. Drift tracks appear here once the archive has more than one week of fixes for this berg.