A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering through the South Atlantic and headed for the British Overseas Territory of the South Georgia Islands since last ...

Eventually, iceberg A23a will break up and enter the waters of South Georgia. With climate change accelerating, this is likely to happen sooner rather than later.

A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square miles.

According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke off from Antarctica and was reportedly going adrift in the South Atlantic, probably towards ...

An enormous iceberg measuring roughly the length of Delaware broke off an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017. Now, that iceberg is headed directly for South Georgia Island — threatening to devastate ...

Iceberg A68a floats near South Georgia Island. Also photographed is A68d, which broke from A68a around December 17. Approximately the size of a small island, the iceberg is big enough to get its ...

Iceberg A-23A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

British government officials are monitoring the A-68A iceberg with drone and airplane flights from the Falkland Islands, which is about 960 miles away. South Georgia Island has no airstrip, and it ...

Iceberg A68a (left) and South Georgia Island (right) as seen by satellite on December 14, 2020. NOAA GOES A68a first broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017 and had been drifting ever since.

An iceberg larger than the state of Rhode Island that broke off an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017 is closing in on South Georgia Island, a British territory in the south Atlantic Ocean. The iceberg ...