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Iceberg D33A

Tabular iceberg · last fix 08/13/2026

Iceberg D33A covers 446 km² and was last fixed at 64°01'S 55°54'W on 08/13/2026. That makes it the 8th largest of the 33 icebergs the US National Ice Center currently tracks, carrying 3.6% of all tracked berg area.

Area446 km²
Rank by area8th of 33 tracked
Share of tracked ice3.6%
Last fix08/13/2026
Position64°01'S 55°54'W
Decimal-64.020, -55.900
Distance to pole2,889 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 D33A came off D33.

Nearest tracked bergs

Nearest stations

60°SD33A
D33A at its last fix. Rings are 60°, 70° and 80°S.
D33DMarambio Antartic BasePetrel Antartic BaseRuperto ElichiribehetyN56 KM
Within 113 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.