The iceberg that was for a time the biggest in the world is no more. A68, as it was known, covered an area of nearly 6,000 sq km (2,300 sq miles) when it broke away from Antarctica in 2017.

Laura Gerrish, GIS and mapping specialist at BAS and co-author of the study said, “A68 was an absolutely fascinating iceberg to track all the way from its creation to its end. Frequent ...

The iceberg, labeled A68, broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in 2017. It had been slowly inching north until this year, when an ocean current ...

New Satellite Photo Reveals World’s Largest Iceberg Is Breaking Into Thousands of Smaller Pieces and Creating Chaos From a ...

Here’s how it works. After the world's largest iceberg snapped off of the Antarctic Peninsula in July 2017, it drifted north on a three-year death march, shedding an unfathomable amount of ...

A23a has held the “largest current iceberg” title several times since the 1980s, occasionally being surpassed by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, including A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021 ...

In 2020, another gigantic iceberg, A68, stirred fears that it would collide with South Georgia. Researchers feared that the iceberg would end up crushing marine life on the sea floor and cutting ...

Behemoth A23a could cut off such access. In 2020, another giant iceberg, A68, stirred fears that it would collide with South Georgia, crushing marine life on the sea floor and cutting off food access.

The iceberg began moving in December ... Previous record-holding icebergs include A68, which measured about 2,240 square miles and broke off northwest Antarctica in July 2017, according to ...

While A23a is still the largest iceberg in the world and has been for much of the last 30 years with other icebergs sporadically claiming the title, such as A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021.

A23a has held the “largest current iceberg” title several times since the 1980s, occasionally being surpassed by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, including A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021.