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The Iceberg graveyard near Penola Bay is an area where many icebergs from the Weddell Sea end up creating a spectacular site. Icebergs in Antarctica circulate with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This is the strongest current in the world rotating in a clockwise direction and moving more than 4.8 billion cubic feet of water per second. Icebergs sometimes spin out of this current and drift. The Iceberg Graveyard is as close looking to a Lunar Landscape as anyplace on earth.