A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square miles.

After more than three decades of being stuck in theWeddell Sea, the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, has broken free and is now drifting northward. This trillion-tonne iceberg, which weighs almost ...

For more than 30 years, the world’s largest iceberg was stuck in the Antarctic. Five times the size of New York City’s land area and more than 1,000 feet deep, the mammoth piece of ice finally ...

There is little fear of a “Titanic II” as boats in the region will be well aware of the iceberg’s location. Once A23a breaks up, though, the smaller bergs will be harder to track, increasing ...

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is breaking apart into smaller pieces, posing a threat to humans and the millions of penguins in the nearby Antarctic sanctuary. NASA's Aqua satellite, equipped ...

Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had been stuck on the ocean floor near Antarctica for 37 years ... who are well aware of the dangers bergs pose − and the location of A23a," he said.

The world’s biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70km from a remote Antarctic island, potentially sparing the crucial wildlife haven from being hit, a research organisation said.

ISTANBUL . Experts differ over whether the melting of the world's largest iceberg, A23a, will accelerate since it started spinning after being caught in a vortex in Antarctica.

Right now, iceberg A23a is floating about 180 miles (~290 kilometers) off the coast of South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It turns out, A23a is the largest iceberg in the Earth's oceans ...

For more than 30 years, the world’s largest iceberg was stuck in the Antarctic. ... trapped in a Taylor column for four years just to the northeast of A23a’s current location. ...

There is little fear of a “Titanic II” as boats in the region will be well aware of the iceberg’s location. Once A23a breaks up, though, the smaller bergs will be harder to track, increasing ...