http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091123/ts_afp/australianzealandantarcticaclimateiceberg

"Scientist Neal Young said more than 100 icebergs -- some measuring more than 200 metres (650 feet) across -- were seen in just one cluster, indicating there could be hundreds more.

"He said they were the remains of a massive ice floe which split from the Antarctic as sea and air temperatures rise due to global warming.

"He said large numbers of icebergs had not floated this close to New Zealand since 2006, when a number came within 25 kilometres of the coastline -- the first such sighting since 1931."

i thought global warming wasn't supposed to be affecting the antarctic as severely as it was the north polar regions.