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Iceberg C39

Tabular iceberg · last fix 08/13/2026

Iceberg C39 covers 52 km² and was last fixed at 66°31'S 59°04'E on 08/13/2026. That makes it the 33rd largest of the 33 icebergs the US National Ice Center currently tracks, carrying 0.4% of all tracked berg area.

Area52 km²
Rank by area33rd of 33 tracked
Share of tracked ice0.4%
Last fix08/13/2026
Position66°31'S 59°04'E
Decimal-66.510, 59.070
Distance to pole2,612 km
Treaty areainside 60°S

How it got its name

The letter records the quadrant the berg was first sighted in — C is 180°–90°E, the western Ross Sea and Wilkes Land — 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.

Nearest tracked bergs

Nearest stations

60°SC39
C39 at its last fix. Rings are 60°, 70° and 80°S.
C18BD23B09GC18CMawsonN380 KM
Within 761 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.