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

A striking new satellite photo has revealed that the world's largest iceberg is starting to break apart into thousands of ...

And it has happened in the past,” Meijers said. The iceberg, known as A68-A, looked like a giant hand pointing a finger. It measured 150 kilometres long and 48 kilometres wide, with a surface ...

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 off ...

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 may be the largest iceberg on the planet at the moment—but it hasn’t always held that title. In July 2017, A68 became the world’s largest iceberg after it calved from the Larsen C ice ...

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.

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 ...

Among the clouds and sea ice, the iceberg is shown alongside the tracks of previous large icebergs A68 and A76a. The animation has been compiled from Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite imagery.

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.