PenguinTracker / Icebergs / D15A
Iceberg D15A
Tabular iceberg · last fix 08/13/2026
Iceberg D15A covers 3,037 km² and was last fixed at 66°38'S 81°55'E on 08/13/2026. That makes it the 1st largest of the 33 icebergs the US National Ice Center currently tracks, carrying 24.6% of all tracked berg area.
Area3,037 km²
Rank by area1st of 33 tracked
Share of tracked ice24.6%
Last fix08/13/2026
Position66°38'S 81°55'E
Decimal-66.630, 81.920
Distance to pole2,599 km
Treaty areainside 60°S
How it got its name
The letter records the quadrant the berg was first sighted in — D is 90°E–0°, the Amery and eastern Weddell sectors — and the number is issued in sequence. A trailing letter marks a fragment that broke off a parent berg, so D15A came off D15.
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D15A at its last fix. Rings are 60°, 70° and 80°S.
Within 497 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.