"I am not aware of an iceberg that has been trapped in such a persistent manner in such a small area," said an ice specialist ...

Scientists predict that the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, will break apart within a month ... 2024 and being carried toward Antarctica. A23a broke off from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in ...

Original article source: World's largest iceberg breaks free after months of spinning in Antarctic The world's first ...

About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for ...

After first calving, or breaking off, from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, the iceberg spent some 30 years grounded in the seafloor of the Weddell Sea. In 2020, A23a escaped and began its ...

Iceberg A23a weighs nearly 1 trillion tons and is twice the size of Greater London. The iceberg is on the move after spinning ...

Picture the sprawling city of Los Angeles. Then triple that size. That’s about the magnitude of the world’s largest iceberg, aka A23a, clocking in at 1,418-square-miles and a whopping one trillion ...

BAS said A23a is expected to head toward the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, where it will begin melting in warmer waters and break ... large icebergs that have calved off Antarctica ...