Some icebergs, however, drift north to warmer climates and disintegrate.
Natural wonders, including glacier-carved fjords, snow-capped mountains and majestic icebergs.
"Antarctica was very beautiful and otherworldly, especially cruising through the icebergs during the late evening twilight," Meinstein said.
The light arrives at a low angle, however, as the Sun makes a daily circuit around the horizon, and icebergs cast long shadows over the surrounding sea ice.
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Some icebergs rise hundreds of feet out of the water.
Camille Seaman is an award-winning photographer who captures striking photos of icebergs.
Photo 10 ：Gentoo and chinstrap penguins look out on a flotilla of small icebergs in Cooper Bay.
Several huge icebergs broke off from Antarctica's Ross ice shelf and the Ronne ice shelf in 2000 and are now drifting away from Antarctica.
The atomic icebreaker reeved the icebergs.
A diver is swimming with two white whales under icebergs in the white Sea, Russia.
Russian experts now believe the safest way to avoid icebergs is to copy the Norwegians and operate sub-sea, laying pipelines in deep trenches.
A flotilla of icebergs, some as jagged as fairytale castles and others as smooth as dinosaur eggs, calve from the ice sheet that smothers Greenland and sail down the fjords.
And the fjords are filled with so many icebergs that local people find it hard to hunt whales there.
The icebergs broke from the vast Ross ice shelf, south of New Zealand, in March 2000 and are now sandwiched between Ross Island and Franklin Island, 93 miles to the north.
Birthing large icebergs is nothing new for the Pine Island Glacier.
The discovery of blocks of gravel which sank to the bottom of the sea trapped in ancient icebergs has sparked a new understanding of a bizarre group of creatures.
The vast array of frozen sculptures includes 'Swiss cheese' icebergs which appear to have deep holes drilled into them and some that have formed gigantic cathedrals of ice.
Maybewe can fault freak atmospheric conditions that caused a mirage oran even rarer astronomical event that sent icebergs into shippinglanes.
The ship wasn't nimble enough to avoid an iceberg that lookouts spotted (the only way to detect icebergs at the time) at the last minute in the darkness.
Sometimes known as icebergs these risks appear suddenly and can result in large losses.
If both groups of rocks had been carried by icebergs, the icebergs must have been remarkably similar.
