Muenchow said he had expected an ice chunk to break off from Petermann, one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland, because it had been growing in size for seven or eight years.

Muenchow说它曾预计过会从格林兰两大冰川之一的彼得曼崩解出一块冰块，因为彼得曼冰川的体积在过去七到八年的时间都一直在增大。

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A 30-tonne (33-ton) chunk of ice broke off from the Tasman Glacier, and slid into Tasman Lake.

塔斯曼冰川上，重达30公吨(33吨)的冰块被折断，滑入塔斯曼海。

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In February last year a 164 - square-mile chunk broke off. Then in May another slab of ice, this time measuring 62 square miles, fell away.

去年2月，有164平方哩的一大块冰层断裂漂走了，接着在去年5月，另一块62平方哩的冰板也倒下了。

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Just 85 miles (136km) from her destination, Endurance was frozen in place stuck fast in a great chunk of ice.

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The roof of a house in Chichester, West Sussex, was damaged in 2010 when a chunk of ice crashed into it at night.

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The drifting chunk of ice, more than 32 miles long by 12 miles wide, forced the drill ship Noble Discoverer to move off the planned well as a precaution, company spokesman Curtis Smith said.

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