We are still in the Antarctic Sound. Our ship’s crew called the Antarctic Sound “iceberg alley”. It was not hard to see why. The Sound was loaded with icebergs of all sizes. The farther we got into the Sound, and the closer we got to the other end and the Weddell Sea, the more we saw of the larger tabular icebergs. Tabular icebergs do not come from glaciers, but rather come from the “ice shelves” of the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea. These seas are frozen over solid but occasionally, large chunks of the ice shelf break off to become icebergs. The tabular icebergs are the really big icebergs.

These photos are different tabular icebergs that we saw on our trip through the Antarctic Sound.