Currently, the gigantic iceberg A23a is moving toward the South Atlantic Ocean and will strike South Georgia Island in two to ...
A colossal iceberg, twice the size of London, is slowly drifting towards a remote island in the South Atlantic. A23a, the world's largest iceberg, could threaten the rich biodiversity of South Georgia ...
In this oceanographic phenomenon, rotating water traps objects on its surface, which kept A23a rotating about ... which will likely push it toward South Georgia Island, where it will encounter ...
According to the U.S. National Ice Center —the global entity that names, tracks and documents Antarctic icebergs that meet ...
But it began to move again last year and is now approaching South Georgia Island, a small island mainly populated by penguins and seals. The world's largest iceberg, named A23a, is seen in ...
said that icebergs such as A23a "are so deep that before reaching an island or mainland they generally get stuck" on the seabed. It is summer in South Georgia and resident penguins and seals along ...
Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had been stuck on the ocean floor near Antarctica for 37 years after splitting in 1986 from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf. But it began to move again ...
Scientists are monitoring A23a closely due to concerns that it may collide with South Georgia Island, potentially threatening a delicate ecosystem that is home to penguins and seals. Satellites ...
An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be crumbling, scientists told AFP on Friday.