The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

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.

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

In 2021, another iceberg about the size of Delaware appeared on a collision course with South Georgia but then fractured into smaller pieces around the island. The British Antarctic Survey expects ...

A 130-foot towering wall of ice with a surface area larger than Rhode Island is slowly making its way toward a remote island near Antarctica. Imagine if the ice wall from Game of Thrones were mobile ...

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

Antarctica has a wild ... and then hiking across South Georgia island to find rescue. Miraculously, not a single crew member died (thanks, in part, to Shackleton’s leadership, as well as ...

Raul Cordero from Chile's University of Santiago, who is also part of the National Antarctic Research Committee, said he was ...

An iceberg seen on NASA’s Aqua satellite, known as A23a, center, is visible as it heads toward South Georgia Island, top, on Jan. 15, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica. [Photo: NASA Worldview ...

That is the same current of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 to make his storied escape from Antarctica after losing his ship, the Endurance. The legendary shipwreck was ...

The world's largest iceberg might be on a collision course for South Georgia Island. If it grounds on ... A23a broke off from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. It hung around for decades ...