A major body of frozen water has run aground in the Southern Ocean. A23a, the world’s largest and oldest iceberg, broke off Antarctica nearly 40 years ago. In 2020, it began to journey toward ...

Iceberg A-23A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

The iceberg A23a has run aground in the shallow waters off of South Georgia, a remote British territory in the Southern Atlantic, researchers say. Latest U.S.

World's largest iceberg on the move after dislodging from ocean floor 04:09. The world's biggest iceberg — three time the size of New York City — could drift toward a remote island where a ...

In 2004, the A38 iceberg grounded on South Georgia's continental shelf, leaving dead penguin chicks and seal pups. The ice mass is estimated to weigh nearly a trillion tons.

An iceberg seen on NASA’s Aqua satellite, known as A23a, center, is visible as it heads toward South Georgia Island, top, on Jan. 15, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica.

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate ...

After a leisurely five-year journey, the ginormous iceberg A23a appears to have run aground near the Southern Ocean’s South Georgia Island, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke off from Antarctica and was reportedly going adrift in the South Atlantic, probably towards ...

South Georgia Island lies in 'Iceberg Alley' ... Antarctica is ringed by a powerful counterclockwise current, according to the National Science Foundation.