A23a Iceberg
- All
- News
-
World's Biggest Iceberg Drifts Towards Antarctic Penguin Island
The world's biggest iceberg -- more than twice the size of London -- could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals.
-
World's Largest Iceberg, Visible From Space, On Course To Collide With Remote British Island
If the iceberg collides, its fragmented pieces could float around South Georgia uncontrollably for years.
-
World's Largest Iceberg A23a Breaks Free, Drifts In The Southern Ocean
As A23a continues on its journey, it is anticipated to follow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current into the Southern Ocean.
-
World's Largest Iceberg A23a Resumes Journey North After Months of Stagnation
A23a, the largest iceberg in the world, has begun moving again after being trapped in a vortex near the South Orkney Islands. Weighing nearly a trillion tonnes and twice the size of Greater London, the iceberg has been stuck in the Weddell Sea for over three decades. Now on its way north, scientists are studying its potential environmental impacts,...
-
A23a: Iceberg That Broke Free In 1986 Still Spinning Today
The world's largest iceberg, A23a, has been spinning in its place just north of Antarctica for months instead of being swept along by Earth's most powerful ocean current.
-
Satellite Measures Thickness Of World's Biggest Iceberg As It Moves Towards Open Waters
The measurements of A23a come from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 mission.
-
Watch: UK Ship Crosses Paths With World's Largest Iceberg
The sighting occurred shortly after researchers confirmed that the iceberg was "on the move" for the first time in 37 years.
-
World's Largest Iceberg Escapes Antarctica, Heading Towards Open Ocean
Like most icebergs from the Weddell sector, A23a is likely to end up in the South Atlantic on a path called iceberg alley, European Space Agency said.
-
World's Biggest Iceberg Drifts Towards Antarctic Penguin Island
The world's biggest iceberg -- more than twice the size of London -- could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals.
-
World's Largest Iceberg, Visible From Space, On Course To Collide With Remote British Island
If the iceberg collides, its fragmented pieces could float around South Georgia uncontrollably for years.
-
World's Largest Iceberg A23a Breaks Free, Drifts In The Southern Ocean
As A23a continues on its journey, it is anticipated to follow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current into the Southern Ocean.
-
World's Largest Iceberg A23a Resumes Journey North After Months of Stagnation
A23a, the largest iceberg in the world, has begun moving again after being trapped in a vortex near the South Orkney Islands. Weighing nearly a trillion tonnes and twice the size of Greater London, the iceberg has been stuck in the Weddell Sea for over three decades. Now on its way north, scientists are studying its potential environmental impacts,...
-
A23a: Iceberg That Broke Free In 1986 Still Spinning Today
The world's largest iceberg, A23a, has been spinning in its place just north of Antarctica for months instead of being swept along by Earth's most powerful ocean current.
-
Satellite Measures Thickness Of World's Biggest Iceberg As It Moves Towards Open Waters
The measurements of A23a come from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 mission.
-
Watch: UK Ship Crosses Paths With World's Largest Iceberg
The sighting occurred shortly after researchers confirmed that the iceberg was "on the move" for the first time in 37 years.
-
World's Largest Iceberg Escapes Antarctica, Heading Towards Open Ocean
Like most icebergs from the Weddell sector, A23a is likely to end up in the South Atlantic on a path called iceberg alley, European Space Agency said.
