The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic known for its populations of penguins ...

A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice ...

A23a, the world’s largest and oldest iceberg, broke off Antarctica nearly 40 years ago. In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora of biodiverse ...

According to the British Antarctic Survey research organization, the mass known as A23a has stopped drifting and run aground on South Georgia, an unpopulated island that is part of the British ...

said that icebergs such as A23a "are so deep that before reaching an island or mainland they generally get stuck" on the seabed. It is summer in South Georgia and resident penguins and seals along ...

The iceberg in question is A-23A, sometimes called A23a. It is the world’s oldest ... The ice slab is meandering and moving parallel to South Georgia Island, oceanographer Andrew Meijers said.

The world's largest iceberg — which is roughly the size of Rhode Island — is fast approaching a remote British Island and wildlife haven in the South Atlantic. As of Jan. 16, the megaberg ...

In this oceanographic phenomenon, rotating water traps objects on its surface, which kept A23a rotating about ... which will likely push it toward South Georgia Island, where it will encounter ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — could slam into South Georgia Island and get stuck or ... major harm from the iceberg, named A23a. What’s happening is more spectacular ...

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. Researchers tracking ...

Scientists are monitoring A23a closely, anticipating two possible scenarios: the iceberg could collide with South Georgia and become lodged, or ocean currents might divert it around the island.