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A23a has run aground in the Southern Ocean after years adrift. But could it continue on its collision course in the future?
The oldest and largest iceberg on Earth landed on a sub-Antarctic island belonging to Britain Tuesday. According to the ...
Flying over the massive iceberg, it's indistinguishable from the horizon. But as it melts, chunks of ice risk floating towards South Georgia, presenting a problem for some of its penguins, seals and ...
The world's largest and oldest iceberg — A23a — finally ground to a halt last week. A23a had been floating across the Southern Ocean for five years before it ran aground near the Island of ...
The world's largest iceberg has run aground in shallow waters ... It's very surprising to see that A23a has lasted this long and only lost about a quarter of its area," said Prof Huw Griffiths ...
The A23A Iceberg getting closer to the South Georgia Island in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Picture: Handout / COPERNICUS SENTINEL DATA 2025 / AFP The world’s biggest and oldest iceberg calved ...
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 Soviet ...
Southwest of South Georgia and stretching further than the eye can see, Iceberg A23a is 40 miles wide and a total of 3,100 Sq Km, making it larger than Greater London. The world's largest iceberg ...
One thousand feet above the world's largest iceberg ... long meanderings north from Antarctica have codenamed the iceberg A23a. But up close, numbers and letters don't do it justice.
The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic known for its populations of penguins ...