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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 ...
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.
Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986. Before its calving in 1986, the colossal iceberg hosted a Soviet ...
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 ...
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.
The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again, drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning on the same spot, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said.
The size at calving was an estimated 4,320 km 2 (1,670 sq mi). Iceberg A-76a in March 2023. The new iceberg was first spotted by Keith Makinson, a polar oceanographer with the British Antarctic Survey in May 2021. [6] By day 148, [7] the iceberg consisted of three fragments, A-76a, A-76b, and A-76c. [8]
An iceberg larger than Rhode Island broke off from the Ronne ice shelf in Antarctica's Weddell Sea mid-May, and a satellite operated by European scientists captured the moment the massive piece of ...