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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 world's largest iceberg is on the move for the first time in more than three decades, scientists said on Friday. At almost 4,000 square km (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called ...
The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards the island of South Georgia. The iceberg, called A23a, was previously ...
The world's biggest iceberg is on the move again after being trapped in a vortex for most of the year. A23a is 3,800 sq km (1,500 sq miles), which is more than twice the size of Greater London ...
The split of the A38-B iceberg is recorded in this series of images. The iceberg was originally part of the massive A-38 iceberg, which broke from the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica [3] B-15A: 6,400 2002 Northern edge of Iceberg B-15A in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, 29 January 2002: A-68: 5,800 175 50 2017 Calving crack in the Larsen C ice shelf [2 ...
The largest iceberg in recent history, named B-15, was measured at nearly 300 by 40 kilometres (186 by 25 mi) in 2000. [6] The largest iceberg on record was an Antarctic tabular iceberg measuring 335 by 97 kilometres (208 by 60 mi) sighted 240 kilometres (150 mi) west of Scott Island , in the South Pacific Ocean, by the USS Glacier on November ...
The world's largest iceberg is on the move in the Southern Ocean after spinning for months. Iceberg A23a weighs nearly 1 trillion tons and is twice the size of Greater London, according to the ...
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]