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A massive iceberg, known as A23a, is on an apparent collision course with South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The giant sheet of ice, which originally broke off ...
The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision ... British Antarctic Survey, a view of the A23a iceberg is seen from the RRS Sir David Attenborough, Antarctica ...
In early July, a rift in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf caused the third-largest iceberg ever recorded to break off. Incredible new photos reveal Antarctica's huge iceberg in stunning detail Skip ...
Iceberg A23a is a large tabular iceberg which calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. It was stuck on the sea bed for many years but then started moving in 2020. As of January 2025, its area is about 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi), which makes it the current largest iceberg in the world.
The iceberg was first spotted on 22 January by the British Antarctic Survey and was later confirmed by the U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) using satellite imagery. [3] As of 31 March 2023, the iceberg was located at 76°48' South and 33°41' West and had a length of 28 nautical miles and width of 25 nautical miles. [4]
Iceberg A-68 on 20 July 2017 The drift of Iceberg A-68A from 1 May 2018 to 26 August 2018. Iceberg A-68 was a giant tabular iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic, having calved from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017. [1] [2] [3] By 16 April 2021, no significant fragments remained. [4]
The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica toward the island of South Georgia.. The iceberg, called A23a, was previously ...
The iceberg is about 170 km (110 mi) long and 25 km (16 mi) wide, and is described as being shaped like a "giant ironing board", and roughly the size of Cornwall. [5] The size at calving was an estimated 4,320 km 2 (1,670 sq mi). Iceberg A-76a in March 2023