The behemoth, dubbed A23a, poses a potential ... highway for the major icebergs,” University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos wrote in an email. “This ocean current path has been known ...
As of Jan. 16, the megaberg, known as A23a, is roughly 180 miles (290 kilometers) away from South Georgia and the South ...
The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals at ...
The iceberg might hit the island in two to four weeks, depending on the current and its path ... of the dangers bergs pose − and the location of A23a," he said. "However, as it breaks up ...
The result could spell trouble for wildlife on those islands, and A23a's movement is a predictor of more similar occurrences as climate change worsens. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 ...
Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic ... That is the same current of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton ...
told CNN that if A23a stays in its current form, he can see it and track it easily. However, the danger is that it could break up and create thousands of tons of smaller icebergs. “These become ...
MARTÍNEZ: In December, A23a began moving. It got caught in a powerful ocean current local sailors and fishermen call Iceberg Alley. HOLSCHUH: Where they get transported up near the Antarctic ...
The huge iceberg A23a measures almost 1,500 square miles, roughly twice the size of Greater London, and is as tall as the Shard in London. Dr Andrew Meijers, physical oceanographer at British ...
The colossal iceberg A23a is on a collision path with the island of South Georgia, a British overseas territory between Antarctica and Argentina in the South Atlantic Ocean. The big berg is ...