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The World’s Largest Iceberg Runs Aground, Potentially Averting a Collision With Penguin and Seal Breeding Areas
After months of floating, the "megaberg" known as A23a has finally come to a halt roughly 50 miles from South Georgia Island ...
CNN1mon
World’s biggest iceberg runs aground off South Georgia
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People28d
World's Largest Iceberg, Weighing Nearly 1 Trillion Tons, Runs Aground Near Sub-Antarctic Island
Since 2020, however, the mega-iceberg has been “drifting with the currents of the Southern Ocean towards South Georgia,” they added. A23a “has been watched closely” by BAS since then.
Scientists peeked underneath an iceberg and found a startling kaleidoscope of marine life
A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when ...
CBS News29d
World's largest iceberg — on collision course with remote penguin island — runs aground
A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square ...
Phys.org1mon
World's biggest iceberg runs aground, sparing wildlife haven island
The colossal iceberg A23a—which is more than twice the size of Greater London and weighs nearly one trillion tonnes—has been drifting north from Antarctica towards South Georgia island since 2020.
The New York Times1mon
World’s Largest Iceberg Runs Aground
By Victor Mather After months of drifting, the world’s largest iceberg has come to a halt near the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean. While a “Titanic II” scenario isn’t ...
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World’s Largest, Oldest Iceberg Runs Aground Near Antarctic Island
A23a weighs nearly a trillion metric tons, making it the world’s largest active iceberg. It calved from Antarctica in 1986, making it the world’s oldest berg. And now, after drifting for half ...
World’s biggest iceberg runs aground, comes to standstill off remote island
A23a calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 and remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over ...
UPI29d
World's largest iceberg, A23a, grounded on British island
It then began drifting toward South Georgia in 2020, but in late 2024 the iceberg got stuck within a Taylor Column, an oceanographic phenomenon where water spins objects while keeping them in ...