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World’s biggest iceberg runs aground off South Georgia

The iceberg spanned an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418 square miles) when measured in August 2024 – slightly smaller than Rhode Island and more than twice the size of London. It calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 and then rested on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for more than 30 years.

Phys.org on MSN · 12d

Mega-iceberg from Antarctica is headed toward South Georgia—here's what could happen

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change is making it happen more frequently,

World's largest iceberg — on collision course with remote penguin island — runs aground

The iceberg A23a has run aground in the shallow waters off of South Georgia, a remote British territory in the Southern Atlantic, researchers say.

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Iceberg A23a is absolutely massive and heading towards a tiny island in the South Atlantic Ocean

Known as A23a, the iceberg is humungous and now floating towards a tiny island known as South Georgia in the South Atlantic ...

A23a iceberg poses no threat to South Georgia, for now

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, has grounded 73 kilometers off South Georgia Island, alleviating concerns about a ...

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