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A massive iceberg, identified as A23a, is drifting northeastward and could be on a collision course with the British territory of South Georgia Island. As of mid-January, the iceberg was estimated ...
"Game of Thrones-esque" iceberg Meijers -- who encountered the iceberg face to face while leading a scientific mission in late 2023 -- described "a huge white cliff, 40 or 50 meters high, that ...
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 remains the largest in the world, according to measurements updated by the US National Ice Center earlier this month.. Spanning an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418 square miles ...
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]
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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
Iceberg B-9B colliding with the Mertz Glacier Tongue calving the Mertz iceberg, 20 February 2010. Iceberg B-9 was an iceberg that calved from Antarctica in 1987. [1] It measured 154 kilometres (96 mi) long and 35 kilometres (22 mi) wide; it had a total area of 5,390 square kilometres (2,080 sq mi), [1] and is one of the longest icebergs ever recorded. [1]