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In a nutshell Iceberg A23a is drifting toward South Georgia, but experts believe it will likely run aground before reaching land. New research suggests Antarctic icebergs have been drifting for at ...
Credit: UK MOD Crown copyright/Cover Images A group of British scientists have photographed and filmed the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, after it began to move again after almost four decades ...
This is not the first time an iceberg has posed a threat to South Georgia. In 2004, iceberg A38 "grounded on its continental shelf, leaving dead penguin chicks and seal pups on beaches as massive ...
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 ...
World's largest iceberg on the move after dislodging from ocean floor The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote ...
Lehtonen, a photographer, took this photo via drone on Tues., July 8, and said: “Actually, the iceberg is two icebergs that were originally one, and are moving or staying still together.” ...
When the iceberg melts, the debris sinks to the ocean floor. The scientists were not surprised to find Antarctic debris near South Orkney, considering its location in Iceberg Alley.
The world's largest iceberg, A23, is fragmenting into smaller pieces, potentially jeopardizing both ships and the millions of penguins on the South Georgia Island wildlife refuge.
A23a, as the iceberg is officially known, was born in 1986 when it broke off from another iceberg, A23, that had torn away from Antarctica earlier that year. The separation of a smaller ice chunk ...