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Iceberg D15D

Tabular iceberg · last fix 08/13/2026

Iceberg D15D covers 56 km² and was last fixed at 67°17'S 79°19'E on 08/13/2026. That makes it the 31st largest of the 33 icebergs the US National Ice Center currently tracks, carrying 0.5% of all tracked berg area.

Area56 km²
Rank by area31st of 33 tracked
Share of tracked ice0.5%
Last fix08/13/2026
Position67°17'S 79°19'E
Decimal-67.290, 79.320
Distance to pole2,525 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 D15D came off D15.

Nearest tracked bergs

Nearest stations

60°SD15D
D15D at its last fix. Rings are 60°, 70° and 80°S.
D15CD15BD34D15AD23DavisZhongshanN170 KM
Within 340 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.