Laura Gerrish, GIS and mapping specialist at BAS and co-author of the study said, “A68 was an absolutely fascinating iceberg to track all the way from its creation to its end. Frequent ...
In 2020, another gigantic iceberg, A68, stirred fears that it would collide with South Georgia. Researchers feared that the iceberg would end up crushing marine life on the sea floor and cutting off ...
The iceberg that broke off — dubbed A68 — was just one piece of the much larger Larsen C ice shelf. Now, scientists want to know how stable is the ice shelf that has been left intact ...
A23a has held the title of the “largest current iceberg” multiple times since the 1980s, though it has been surpassed on occasion by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, like A68 in 2017 and A76 ...