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It's when a glacier or ice shelf has allot of pressure on it, and breaks. The chunk of ice floats in open water and it is an iceberg.

(Icebergs are pieces of Antarctica's ice sheets which break/melt off overtime. So, icebergs are really formed because of Antarctica.) Yes but not just Antarctica - they form wherever a glacier enters the sea
An iceberg is a large piece of fresh water ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf that is then able to float freely in open water. They vary tremendously in size. The largest to date was about 12,000 square miles in size; larger than Belgium. Paraphrased from WikiPedia. See link for more.

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