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iceberg

A large, massive piece of floating or stranded glacier ice of any shape, detached (calved) from the front of a glacier into a body of water. An iceberg extends more than 5 m above sea level and has the greater part of its mass (four-fifths to eight-ninths) below sea level. It may reach a length of more than 80 km.

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