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It can come from nowhere – Said Captain Wallace. In 2023, iceberg A76 drifted dangerously close as well. Chunks of it were tipping up, so they looked like great ice towers, an ice city on the horizon ...
The world’s largest iceberg, A23, is fragmenting into smaller pieces, potentially jeopardizing both humans and the millions of penguins in the neighboring Antarctic refuge. Alarming photos ...
In 2004, iceberg A38 submerged on the continental shelf of South Georgia, which cut off sea pups and penguin chicks from their food. Many of the animals died. Unfortunately, floating icebergs are an ...
A23a briefly lost its title as the world's largest iceberg in 2021, but regained its record earlier this year when the previous record holder, A76, broke into three pieces.
In 2023, iceberg A76 came close to grounding. "We are interested to see if it will take the same route the other large icebergs that have calved off Antarctica have taken.
A23a, the world’s largest iceberg, is moving north from Antarctica toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The iceberg is currently around 280 km from the ...
"South Georgia sits in iceberg alley so impacts are to be expected for both fisheries and wildlife, and both have a great capacity to adapt," Mark Belchier, a marine ecologist and adviser to the South ...
The biggest iceberg is thought to have been discovered in 1987 in Antarctica, with an area of 6,350sq km, which weighed about 1.4 trillion tonnes and could have provided everyone in the world with ...
In 2023, the A76 iceberg came close to grounding in South Georgia. Chunks of the ice that broke off still litter the island, some the size of several Wembley Stadiums.
The iceberg cometh. The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a British island off Antarctica, potentially jeopardizing both marine life and ships in the area.