Satellites watch world's largest iceberg on crash course with Antarctic penguin island (photo/video)
Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg according to AFP News. Its imposing size and slow, steady movement have captivated oceanographers and researchers alike, though predicting its exact path has proven difficult due to the unpredictable forces of ocean currents.
The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...
South Georgia Island, 250th Anniversary of British Possession, led by the great navigator James Cook
On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay in South Georgia Island. While his vessel HMS Resolution sat at anchor in the bay, Cook went ashore, hoisted the ...
The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is heading north from Antarctica toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the ...
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One Trillion Ton Iceberg on Crash Course for Small IslandA23a, the world’s largest iceberg, broke loose from Antarctica; now it’s spiraling towards South Georgia Island.
The world’s largest iceberg ‘A23a’ broke away from the Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986 and is now drifting northwards.
The trillion-ton slab of ice that scientists call a "megaburg" broke off from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986.
It’s also a natural process happening more frequently because of human-caused climate change, said British Antarctic Survey ...
The 'world's biggest iceberg', "A23a iceberg", which is more than twice the size of London, is drifting toward South Georgia ...
The world's biggest iceberg -- more than twice the size of London -- could drift towards a remote island where a scientist ...
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