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A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
A23a - the world’s largest and oldest iceberg - has run aground on the continental shelf near the island of South Georgia, scientists say. The nearly one-trillion-tonne block of ice was calved ...
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 ...
Megaberg A23a might be on the verge of running into South Georgia and surrounding islands in the South Atlantic. The result could spell trouble for wildlife on those islands, and A23a's movement ...
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 ...
But in January, it became clear that A23a was on a collision course with South Georgia in the Scotia Sea ... around 60 miles (100 kilometers) off the island's southwest coast, where it became ...