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A fact from Iceberg A-74 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 has provided the opportunity to study seafloor organisms that can survive 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the nearest daylight?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Iceberg A-74.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:01, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Satellite image of A-74

... that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 (pictured) has provided the opportunity to study seafloor organisms that can survive 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the nearest daylight? "German scientists have inspected an area of seafloor newly exposed by the calving of mega-iceberg A74 and found it to be teeming with animals ... Finding this kind of community this far under the ice shelf is not surprising but it is a good indication that there is a rich supply of food reaching at least 30km under the ice shelf ... The iceberg isn't that wide so the distance under the ice shelf isn't that huge (about 30km from daylight maximum) but how much food gets there will depend on the currents." from: "Mega-iceberg A74: German ship squeezes through narrow ice channel". BBC News. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ALT1:... that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 (pictured) exposed parts of the Antarctica seafloor to sunlight for the first time in 50 years? "Antarctic seafloor exposed after 50 years of ice cover" from: "Antarctic seafloor exposed after 50 years of ice cover". BBC News. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021. and "It means the uncovered seafloor and the water column above it are now being exposed to the influence of sunlight, wind and temperature fluctuations in a way they haven't been for 50 years." from: "Mega-iceberg A74: German ship squeezes through narrow ice channel". BBC News. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Fancourt

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 08:43, 19 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new, long enough and within policy. Well sourced; no copyvio detected by Earwig's tool. Both hooks are short enough and interesting. QPQ done. Image is in the public domain, shows up well and appears in the article.

Just two issues with the hooks: The corresponding sentences in the article need to have inline sources "no later than the end of the sentence(s) offering that fact" per WP:DYKRULES. Regarding the first hook: strictly speaking, most organisms can survive 150 million kilometers from the nearest light source, i.e. the sun. What about changing "nearest light source" to "daylight"? Same applies for the corresponsing phrasing in the article.

Thanks for the interesting read! --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 08:21, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ἀνυπόδητος, thanks for the review and CE to the article. I've changed to "daylight" and added the duplicate citations - Dumelow (talk) 08:26, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, good to go! --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 08:30, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]