The world’s largest iceberg is heading towards a remote British island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean and could ...
The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...
A23a, a massive iceberg nearly the size of Rhode Island, towering at 40 meters, is on a collision course with South Georgia.
The iceberg cometh. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 square miles in size and located about 173 miles from the ...
Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...
The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is on a crash course towards South Georgia, threatening millions of penguins and seals.
A23a, the world’s largest iceberg, broke loose from Antarctica; now it’s spiraling towards South Georgia Island.
In this oceanographic phenomenon, rotating water traps objects on its surface, which kept A23a rotating about ... which will likely push it toward South Georgia Island, where it will encounter ...
For over 30 years, the A23a iceberg stayed anchored to the Antarctic Weddell Sea floor before it shrank and lost its grip on the seafloor which turned it into a massive floating fragment of ice. The ...
If A23a, an Antarctic iceberg the size of Rhode Island, grounds off South Georgia Island, it will create a hazard for wildlife and ships alike.
Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.
The huge iceberg A23a measures almost 1,500 square miles ... It is now heading towards South Georgia. The iceberg could ground against the island, meaning that the many seals and penguins which live ...