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Iceberg B-15 was widely reported as being one Jamaica in size, which works out at a bit over two Majorcas, or four Rohode Islands.

Glad you asked!

Rhode Island (US) is 0.86 times as big as Mallorca Island

It's interesting that DW would choose that reference. Germans... they surely love the Balearic islands.

It makes a change from the microWales.

By sheer coincidence, one microWales is about the same area as one kiloKillerWhales — 20,000 m^2

(Skin area of a killer whale approximated as open ended cylinder 6.6 m long 0.92 m diameter: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28area+wales+in+squar... )

Hmm no mention of Majorca yet on this fascinating page:

You only need to convert it firs to football fields International|American or (probably exist too) Imperial ones. ;)

Mallorca is one of my favorites places, but it does seem odd as a unit of measurement.

I’d like to know how many Nissan Altima’s it is.