A23a had been floating across the Southern Ocean for five years before it ran aground near the Island of South Georgia.

The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — is currently aground near the South Georgia Island. A23a could affect the marine life on the island, including penguins and seals, as they use the ...

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World's biggest iceberg appears to have run aground near remote British ... a circular latitude that includes the Southern ...

The world's largest and oldest iceberg A23a seen after it appears to have run aground off the British island of South Georgia ...

The world’s largest and oldest iceberg, A23a, has come to a halt near South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, ...

Photo: Theresa Gossman/ British Antarctic Survey The world's largest and oldest iceberg A23a weighing about 1 trillion tons has stopped drifting, most likely it ran aground on the continental shelf of ...

Now, off the coast of South Georgia, this visitor from the South Pole poses potential problems and blessings. Scientists report that it is inevitable that the iceberg will break apart and melt. In ...

An aerial view of Iceberg A23a during a British Royal Air Force on November 24, 2024 in the South Atlantic Ocean near South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. A23a, the world's largest ...

The biggest iceberg in the world, named A23a, appears to have run aground after drifting around the Southern Ocean near Antarctica since 2020. Weighing nearly a trillion metric tonnes (1.1 trillion ...

“If the iceberg stays grounded, we don’t expect it to significantly affect the local wildlife of South Georgia,” said Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at the BAS, in the statement. On the ...