A23a: World's largest iceberg on collision course with remote British island threatening penguins and seals
The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals at risk. The iceberg, A23a, broke free from its position north of the South Orkney Islands last month and is now heading towards South Georgia, where it could crash into the island.
Currently, the gigantic iceberg A23a is moving toward the South Atlantic Ocean and will strike South Georgia Island in two to ...
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'Queen of icebergs' A23a is barreling toward a remote South Atlantic island. Millions of animals could be at riskAs of Jan. 16, the megaberg, known as A23a, is roughly 180 miles (290 kilometers) away from South Georgia and the South ...
Environmentalists fear for the island's rare king penguins and millions of elephant and fur seals if iceberg collides.
The iceberg, called A23a, was previously “trapped” spinning around an undersea mountain for several months, according to Andrew Meijers, a physical oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey.
The slab of ice — named A23a — weighs almost one trillion tonnes and could slam into South Georgia Island before either ...
Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986. Before its calving in 1986, the colossal iceberg hosted a ...
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First major chunk breaks off world's biggest icebergAn enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be ...
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