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A23a has run aground in the Southern Ocean after years adrift. But could it continue on its collision course in the future?
The world's largest iceberg, A23a, has grounded 73 kilometers off South Georgia Island, alleviating concerns about a potential collision that could have disrupted the local wildlife's food supply.
A23a is 3900 square kilometres in area, making it more than twice the size of Greater London and more than four times the size of New York City. It is 400 metres thick and it once housed a Soviet ...
Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and they could offer clues to ...
A23a was confirmed to be intact and 173 miles from South Georgia A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering through the South Atlantic and headed for the ...
Scientists who have used satellites to track the iceberg's decades-long meanderings north from Antarctica have codenamed the iceberg A23a. But up close, numbers and letters don't do it justice.
After months on the move, the world's largest iceberg, A23a, has run aground off the remote British island of South Georgia, representatives from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reported on ...
Slightly smaller than Rhode Island, A23a originally split from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986 and then remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over 30 years, according to ...
The world's biggest iceberg, A23a, has grounded in shallow waters off South Georgia, a remote South Atlantic British island home to millions of penguins and seals. The iceberg, which is roughly ...
Followed categories will be added to My News. The colossal iceberg A23a – which is more than twice the size of Greater London and weighs nearly one trillion tonnes – has been drifting north ...
The world's biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70 kilometres from a remote Antarctic island, potentially sparing the crucial wildlife haven from being hit, a research organisation ...
The near-trillion-tonne frozen block, A23a, began its spin at the beginning of the year, while holding broadly the same position just north of the Antarctic Peninsula. The berg is expected shortly ...