A23a: World's largest iceberg on collision course with remote British island threatening penguins and seals
The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals at risk. The iceberg, A23a, broke free from its position north of the South Orkney Islands last month and is now heading towards South Georgia, where it could crash into the island.
It covers 3,500 km², two times the size of Greater London A23a, world’s largest iceberg 100 km 82 km Iceberg A23a South Pole ...
The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is heading north from Antarctica toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the ...
The slab of ice — named A23a — weighs almost one trillion tonnes and could slam into South Georgia Island before either ...
The A23a iceberg broke away from Antarctica nearly 40 years ago and is now en route to smash into British territory South ...
The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is on a path toward South Georgia, a remote British territory and wildlife haven in the South Atlantic. The colossal ice mass, currently 173 miles away ...
The iceberg, called A23a, was previously “trapped” spinning around an undersea mountain for several months, according to Andrew Meijers, a physical oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey.
The colossal iceberg A23a is on a collision path with the island of South Georgia, a British overseas territory between Antarctica and Argentina in the South Atlantic Ocean. The big berg is ...
A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.
The A23a iceberg calved from the Antarctic ice shelf in 1986, but only started moving north away from the frozen continent ...
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