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According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke off from Antarctica and was reportedly going adrift in the South Atlantic, probably towards ...
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South Georgia Island Was Spared After The World's Largest Iceberg Grinded To A Halt, But It's Not Over YetEventually, iceberg A23a will break up and enter the waters of South Georgia. With climate change accelerating, this is likely to happen sooner rather than later.
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 miles.
World's largest iceberg on the move after dislodging from ocean floor 04:09. The world's biggest iceberg — three time the size of New York City — could drift toward a remote island where a ...
Iceberg A68a floats near South Georgia Island. Also photographed is A68d, which broke from A68a around December 17. Approximately the size of a small island, the iceberg is big enough to get its ...
British government officials are monitoring the A-68A iceberg with drone and airplane flights from the Falkland Islands, which is about 960 miles away. South Georgia Island has no airstrip, and it ...
Iceberg A-23A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.
An iceberg larger than the state of Rhode Island that broke off an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017 is closing in on South Georgia Island, a British territory in the south Atlantic Ocean. The iceberg ...
Iceberg A68a (left) and South Georgia Island (right) as seen by satellite on December 14, 2020. NOAA GOES A68a first broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017 and had been drifting ever since.
Satellite images indicate that an iceberg 158 km long and 48 km wide is floating towards the island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic, where it could cause damage to the local wildlife ...
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