Scientists have found scour marks left behind by a gigantic iceberg between Greenland and Spitsbergen.

It has a depth of 1, 2000 meters making it the lowest-lying scours mark found on the Artic Sea floor, they believe.

Jan Erik Arndt from the Alfred Wegener Institute said that whenever icebergs run a ground, they leave behind scours marks on the sea bed.

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He said that markings may continue to exist over long periods of times depending on the depth and location of the ice berg.

The scourge mark was discovered on Hoygaard Ridge, a plateau found deep in Atlantic Ocean, which is located 400 kilometers off of the Eastern Coast of Greenland.

It is four kilometers long and 15 meters depth, Arndt explained.

He said that this scour marks serves as the window to the past. With this newly discovered scours, scientists are now aware that few of them can be very large.

Scientist first discovered the lineaments when they are examining a bathymetric data from the 1990s which was collected by Polarstern, a research ship.

After further study, they found out that the lineament was an iceberg scours with great depths.

Scientists said that the scours had taken place within the past 800,000 years with glacial period of about 120 meters.

The iceberg reaches depths of 1,080 meters below sea level with a height of 1, 200 meters which is about three times the height of the Empire State Building.

Scientists claim that they found the largest iceberg in the Antarctic. The last reported biggest iceberg only reached 700 meters below the surface water.

They believe that this finding can provide new insights to the extent of Artic sheets thousands of years ago.

This can also explain the dynamics of Ice Age that occurred thousands of years ago, they added.