A 130-foot towering wall of ice with a surface area larger than Rhode Island is slowly making its way toward a remote island near Antarctica. Imagine if the ice wall from Game of Thrones were mobile ...
A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.
The world’s largest iceberg is heading towards a remote British island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean and could ...
The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...
Currently, the gigantic iceberg A23a is moving toward the South Atlantic Ocean and will strike South Georgia Island in two to ...
A23a, a massive iceberg nearly the size of Rhode Island, towering at 40 meters, is on a collision course with South Georgia.
Environmentalists fear for the island's rare king penguins and millions of elephant and fur seals if iceberg collides.
The iceberg cometh. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 square miles in size and located about 173 miles from the ...
Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...
According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke ... adrift in the South Atlantic, probably towards South Georgia Island.
Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.
For over 30 years, the A23a iceberg stayed anchored to the Antarctic Weddell Sea floor before it shrank and lost its grip on the seafloor which turned it into a massive floating fragment of ice. The ...