A23a - Wikipedia
A23a is a large tabular iceberg which calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. It was stuck on the sea bed for many years but then started moving in 2020. As of January 2025, its area is about 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi), which …
The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with vital …
1 day ago · An enormous iceberg known as A23a is heading towards South Georgia: a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean, filled with seals and penguins. The trillion-ton megaberg was stuck in the ocean ...
Tracking A23a - ArcGIS StoryMaps
Welcome to the journey of Iceberg A23a, a colossal piece of ice that broke away from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986. For over three decades, A23a remained anchored in the Weddell Sea, but recent shifts in ocean currents have set it on a significant migration path.
GOES East Tracking A23a – The World’s Largest Iceberg
Jan 24, 2025 · According to the U.S. National Ice Center—the global entity that names, tracks and documents Antarctic icebergs that meet specific size criteria—Iceberg A23a was 1062.22 nautical miles in area as of Jan. 16, 2025, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island.
A23a: Giant iceberg on collision course with island - penguins and ...
Jan 23, 2025 · A23a could break into vast segments any day, which may then hang around for years, like floating cities of ice cruising uncontrollably around South Georgia. This isn't the first huge iceberg to ...
A23a: Fears that the world’s biggest iceberg could hit island in the ...
Jan 23, 2025 · The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica toward the island of South Georgia.. The iceberg, called A23a, was previously ...
A23a iceberg moving north again after being trapped in vortex
Dec 14, 2024 · The world's biggest iceberg is on the move again after being trapped in a vortex for most of the year. A23a is 3,800 sq km (1,500 sq miles), which is more than twice the size of Greater London...
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, is on the move again | CNN
Dec 16, 2024 · A23a has held the “largest current iceberg” title several times since the 1980s, occasionally being surpassed by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, including A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021.
Largest iceberg in the world, 40 miles wide, is now heading into …
Dec 1, 2023 · Recent satellite images have shown the migration of the mammoth iceberg known as A23a from its origins in the Weddell Sea to its current position on the edge of the open ocean. If icebergs were...
A23a: Spectacular arches, caves as monster iceberg decays - BBC
Jan 16, 2024 · Erosion is sculpting dramatic features in the world's biggest iceberg in what's likely to be the final months of its existence. A ship run by the Eyos expeditions company arrived at the frozen...