An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice more than 15 m long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. Smaller chunks of floating glacially-derived ice are called "growlers" or "bergy bits". Both are generally spawned from disintegrating icebergs.

What does the name Berg mean?

Scandinavian: habitational name for someone who lived at a farmstead named with Old Norse bjarg 'mountain', 'hill'. ... In Sweden this is commonly found as an element of ornamental names.

What does Berg mean in Hebrew?

Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Berg'mountain', 'hill', or a short form of any of the many ornamental surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Schönberg (see Schoenberg) and Goldberg.