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

Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had been stuck on the ocean floor near Antarctica for 37 years after splitting in 1986 from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf. But it began to ...

Now, a new study has suggested that interference from the Northern Lights that fateful night may have contributed to the ship ...

Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.

Originally measuring 1,500 square miles, the iceberg has shrunk to 1,400 square miles as melting and fracturing weaken its towering sides, which rise up to 1,312 feet above the ocean's surface ...

"The island acts as an obstacle for ocean currents and therefore usually diverts the water long before it reaches the island," he said. "The iceberg is moved by that water flow, so the chances of ...

A massive iceberg, known as A23a, is on an apparent collision course with South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The giant sheet of ice, which originally broke off ...

Then, the iceberg was carried away by ocean currents before it became stuck again in a Taylor column –– the name given to a spinning vortex of water caused by ocean currents hitting an ...

The world’s largest iceberg is heading towards a remote British island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean and could threaten millions of penguins and seals that live there. The huge iceberg ...

After eight months trapped in a whirlpool in the Southern Ocean, the world’s largest iceberg is on the move again — and potentially on a path to hit the island of South Georgia. The island ...