Earth's largest iceberg has run aground off the coast of South Georgia Island, a common rendezvous spot for big bergs, new satellite images show.

the iceberg appears to be grounded in the shallow continental shelf around South Georgia, settling roughly 50 miles from the island's southwestern coast, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

With a surface area of 3,360 square kilometers, the iceberg was heading north of Antarctica, towards South Georgia Island, driven since December by powerful ocean currents. It was feared that it ...

After months of floating, the "megaberg" known as A23a has finally come to a halt roughly 50 miles from South Georgia Island ...

A23a calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 and remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over ...

NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured imagery of the iceberg slowly drifting northeastward away from Antarctica and toward South Georgia Island, but in February, it ran aground southwest of the ...

The world's largest iceberg, roughly four times the size of New York City, has run aground after crashing into a remote island in the South Atlantic ocean. As the New York Times reports, the event ...

March 4 (UPI) --The oldest and largest iceberg on Earth landed on a sub-Antarctic island belonging ... drifting and run aground on South Georgia, an unpopulated island that is part of the British ...

The colossal iceberg A23a - which is more than twice the size of Greater London and weighs nearly one trillion tonnes - has been drifting north from Antarctica towards South Georgia island since 2020.