Iceberg A68a is 4,200 sq km in size and is about the same shape and size as Jamaica.BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE / Stuff The peninsula is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth, registering a ...

The megaberg is now just 173 miles away from South Georgia - a British territory and wildlife haven that's home to thousands of penguins and seals.

The BAS released an animation in January showing A23a moving north out of the Weddell Sea along a route similar to the one taken by the large iceberg A68a, which also spent months spinning.

He pointed to iceberg A68a, which in 2020 spun for months a little further west from where A23a is now before being freed. Whatever happens, “the margins of Antarctica” and their mysteries ...

Iceberg A68a, the largest remaining chunk of the original berg, was caught in a tug-of-war of ocean currents, and the strain of those opposing forces probably pulled the iceberg apart, the team ...

Fractures in an Antarctic iceberg were likely caused by rapid changes in the currents that flow through the Southern Ocean. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

By Henry Fountain Perhaps you remember iceberg A68a, which enjoyed a few minutes of fame back in 2017 when it broke off an ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Hardly your everyday iceberg ...

This is the case for iceberg A68A, which broke off its shelf in Antarctica in 2017 and traveled as far as South Georgia by the end of 2021. A new study published in Remote Sensing of Environment ...

What was once the biggest iceberg in the world released more than 167 billion tons of freshwater in three months and nearly 1 trillion tons in its lifespan, which could have profound effects on ...

When the massive A68A iceberg snapped off its ice shelf in July 2017, it was the sixth-largest iceberg on record. Now more than half of it is gone. A study published on January 10 in the journal ...

Satellite images shows A68a heading towards the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Credit: MODIS from NASA Worldview Snapshots Scientists monitoring the giant A68a iceberg from space reveal ...