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Iceberg D23

Tabular iceberg · last fix 08/13/2026

Iceberg D23 covers 106 km² and was last fixed at 69°26'S 74°43'E on 08/13/2026. That makes it the 23rd largest of the 33 icebergs the US National Ice Center currently tracks, carrying 0.9% of all tracked berg area.

Area106 km²
Rank by area23rd of 33 tracked
Share of tracked ice0.9%
Last fix08/13/2026
Position69°26'S 74°43'E
Decimal-69.440, 74.710
Distance to pole2,286 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 this one has not been logged as a fragment.

Nearest tracked bergs

Nearest stations

60°SD23
D23 at its last fix. Rings are 60°, 70° and 80°S.
Druzhnaya IVBharatiZhongshanN50 KM
Within 100 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.