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It's not exactly clear, however, why the iceberg began moving after being grounded for so long. “I asked a couple of colleagues about this, wondering if there was any possible change in shelf ...
The ship collided with the iceberg on Saturday in western Antarctica's Amundsen Sea, which was apparently shrouded in fog at the time of the crash, the South China Morning Post reported Tuesday ...
The world's biggest iceberg is on the move – and it's got the moves.. The nearly 1,000-ton iceberg, known as A23a, located near Antarctica has done a twirl and spun in a circle. It's not totally ...
Well, A23a is the biggest iceberg in the world. It is about four times the size of New York City. When it broke away, it was about 1500 square miles, and today it is estimated to be 1330 square miles.
A23a has held the “largest current iceberg” title several times since the 1980s, occasionally being surpassed by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, including A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021.
An iceberg seen on NASA’s Aqua satellite, known as A23a, center, is visible as it heads toward South Georgia Island, top, on Jan. 15, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica.
Scientists capture stunning moment iceberg collapses into ocean 00:49. A massive slab of ice, roughly the shape of Manhattan but more than 70 times larger, has sheared off from Antarctica and ...
A huge iceberg the size of Las Vegas has broken off from an Antarctica ice shelf. Maps created with GPS equipment show the 235-mile-long iceberg breaking off from the Brunt Ice Shelf, which is 500 ...
While this makes it the largest iceberg now bobbing in the world’s oceans, it is not the largest on record. That behemoth, known as A-76, measured 4320 square kilometres when it broke off from ...
The iceberg is large, but not as huge as the iceberg that calved from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017 and recently threatened to run aground on South Georgia Island.
A new iceberg that is larger than the size of Greater London broke off of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf on Jan. 22 nears the British Halley Research station.