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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.
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In 2018 or 2019, a large chunk almost 14 km × 8 km (9 miles × 5 miles) broke off and was named A-68B, with the mother iceberg now being A-68A. [13] On 6 February 2020, A-68A began moving into open waters. [14] On 23 April 2020, a chunk measuring about 175 sq. km. (70 sq. mi.) broke off the iceberg and was named A-68C. [15]
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 iceberg is about three times the size of New York City and more than twice the size of Greater London World’s largest iceberg on the move again after months spinning on the spot Skip to main ...
Northern edge of Iceberg B-15A in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, 29 January 2001. Iceberg B-15 was the largest recorded iceberg by area. [Note 1] It measured around 295 by 37 kilometres (159 by 20 nautical miles), with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (3,200 square nautical miles), about the size of the island of Jamaica.
When the A-68 iceberg calved from the Larsen C ice shelf it weighed up to a trillion tonnes, and measured 2,300 square miles, a quarter of the size of Wales. World’s biggest iceberg ‘is about ...
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 ...