Satellites watch world's largest iceberg on crash course with Antarctic penguin island (photo/video)
Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg according to AFP News. Its imposing size and slow, steady movement have captivated oceanographers and researchers alike, though predicting its exact path has proven difficult due to the unpredictable forces of ocean currents.
Visible from space, the world’s largest iceberg is headed towards a remote Antarctic island, threatening local animals.
While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...
The slab of ice — named A23a — weighs almost one trillion tonnes and could slam into South Georgia Island before either ...
The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is heading north from Antarctica toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the ...
Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986. Before its calving in 1986, the colossal iceberg hosted a ...
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Scientists Fear As World’s Largest Iceberg Charges Towards Wildlife Sanctuary. Here’s What Could UnfoldAs the Rhode Island-sized iceberg is actively on the move, scientists ring alarm bells over an impending calamity that may ...
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 ...
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