The world's biggest iceberg is on the move – and it's got the moves. The nearly 1,000-ton iceberg, known as A23a, located near Antarctica has done a twirl and spun in a circle. It's not totally ...

About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for months. Now, it's free, and heading back into open Antarctic waters.

T he world's largest iceberg, A23a, is spinning north of Antarctica and it probably will do so for a long time. The block of ice is caught in a swirling ocean current caused by an obstruction on ...

The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again, drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning on the same spot, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said.

Images of the largest iceberg in the world have been snapped by NASA as it drifts toward its doom in warmer waters.. The iceberg, named A-23A (sometimes called A23a), just escaped from an ocean ...

Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986.Before its calving in 1986, the colossal iceberg hosted a Soviet ...

March 4 (UPI) --The oldest and largest iceberg on Earth landed on a sub-Antarctic island belonging to Britain Tuesday. According to the British Antarctic Survey research organization, the mass ...

The slow-motion dance is the latest act in a decades-long journey that A23a embarked on after splitting from Antarctica in 1986. It is also staving off the iceberg’s demise.

A23a, nicknamed the "queen of icebergs," measures 1,222 miles (1,967 kilometers) in surface area, according to the U.S. National Ice Center. It first broke off from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf ...

For over 30 years, the A23a iceberg stayed anchored to the Antarctic Weddell Sea floor before it shrank and lost its grip on the seafloor which turned it into a massive floating fragment of ice.

A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice chunks around the Antarctic island of South Georgia.

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