All images © AfarTV Watch a Monumental Iceberg in Greenland Do a Somersault ClimateNature Kate Mothes SharePinEmailCopyBookmarkGreenland, the world’s largest island, is also covered in one of the earth’s two ice sheets. Greenland’s encompasses around 80 percent of the nation’s land mass, spanning more than 650,000 square miles. And Greenland’s massive icebergs are a reminder of this exceptional scale. On July 25, a mammoth iceberg literally made waves as it flipped over off the coast of Ilulissat, Greenland. “It is not known precisely when this particular iceberg originally separated from the glacier.”