![]() The year it would have taken to move along the 40 mile long fjord would have left the iceberg at around a half of its original size.ġ,000,000,000 tons – the amount of sea water displaced by the iceberg at its original size (one billion tons!).ģ00 – the approximate number of icebergs reaching the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic in April 1912, the largest number for around 50 years. Most do not make it this far, either getting caught en route or finally melting in the warm waters of the gulf stream.ġ mile – the likely original length of the Titanic iceberg. ![]() They initially float north along Greenland’s west coast before beginning their southward journey past the coastlines of Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland, before passing through the gulf stream into the Atlantic past. At it’s mouth, the seaward ice wall of Ilulissat is around 6 kilometres wide and rises 80 metres above sea level.ġ909 – the year in which the Titanic iceberg is believed to have been ‘born’.ġ – 2 – the likely number of icebergs that the Ilulissat ice-shelf would have produced in 1909.ġ – 4% – the proportion of those icebergs that survive to reach shipping waters. ![]() In an interview with the Chicago American newspaper Dahl criticised the speed at which Titanic had been travelling through the icefield, describing how Carpathia had needed to zigzag through bergs whilst collecting survivors.ġ1:39 pm – the time at which the iceberg Titanic struck was first spotted, too late to avoid a collision (read more on the timeline).ģ0 seconds – the amount of time from the first sighting of the iceberg to the impact.ĥ0 – 100 feet – the estimated height of the iceberg above water, as recounted by Titanic survivors.Ģ00 – 400 feet – the estimated length of the iceberg.ĥ – the number of days after the sinking when Rehorek took his photograph of the iceberg.Ĩ5% – the amount of all icebergs in the North Atlantic that originate from the west coast of Greenland.Ĥ0,000 – the approximate number of icebergs born each year along the coast of GreenlandĪccording to experts the Ilulissat ice shelf on the west coast of Greenland is now believed to be the most likely place from which the Titanic iceberg originated. Jump to the story of the iceberg that sank Titanic Key Facts About The Icebergġ9 – the number of icebergs that third class survivor Charles Dahl later claimed he had seen from lifeboat number 15, during the hours following the sinking.
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