Currently, the gigantic iceberg A23a is moving toward the South Atlantic Ocean and will strike South Georgia Island in two to ...

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

The iceberg cometh. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 square miles in size and located about 173 miles from the ...

The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards ...

For over 30 years, the A23a iceberg stayed anchored to the Antarctic Weddell Sea floor before it shrank and lost its grip on the seafloor which turned it into a massive floating fragment of ice. The ...

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is drifting from Antarctica toward South Georgia, a remote British island renowned for its ...

Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.

But it began to move again last year and is now approaching South Georgia Island, a small island mainly populated by penguins and seals. The iceberg had been stuck in a rotating water column near ...