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Bergy bit

A piece of floating glacier ice up to several metres across, commonly deriving from the disintegration of an iceberg.

Floating and beached bergy bits derived from tidewater glaciers (q.v.) in Kongsfjorden, NW Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Photo M. J. Hambrey.

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