A23a: Fears that the world’s biggest iceberg could hit island in the ...
13 hours ago · The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards the island of South Georgia.. The iceberg, called A23a, …
A23a - Wikipedia
A23a's course mapped by the NASA Earth Observatory [1] Satellite images in 2024. A23a is a large tabular iceberg which calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. It was stuck on …
A23a: Giant iceberg on collision course with island - BBC
1 day ago · The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals in danger. ... It is known as A23a and is one of the …
A23a iceberg moving north again after being trapped in vortex
Dec 14, 2024 · The world's biggest iceberg is on the move again after being trapped in a vortex for most of the year. A23a is 3,800 sq km (1,500 sq miles), which is more than twice the size …
The previously stuck A23a iceberg is trapped again, spinning in a …
Aug 10, 2024 · The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is stuck again. For more than 30 years, the giant frozen block — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island — was grounded on the sea floor …
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, is on the move again | CNN
Dec 16, 2024 · 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 …
World's biggest iceberg, A23a, breaks free : NPR
Dec 20, 2024 · About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for months. Now, it's free, and heading back into open …
A23a: Colossal iceberg stuck spinning in ocean trap - BBC
Aug 3, 2024 · Something remarkable has happened to A23a, the world's biggest iceberg. For months now it has been spinning on the spot just north of Antarctica when really it should be …
A23a: World's biggest iceberg on the move after 30 years - BBC
A23a is a true colossus, and it's not just its width that impresses. This slab of ice is some 400m (1,312 ft) thick. For comparison, the London Shard, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, is a mere...
Largest iceberg in the world, 40 miles wide, is now heading into …
Dec 1, 2023 · Recent satellite images have shown the migration of the mammoth iceberg known as A23a from its origins in the Weddell Sea to its current position on the edge of the open …