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 ...

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.

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The world’s largest iceberg, named A23a, near Antarctica in April. Credit... Derren Fox, British Antarctic Survey. By Remy Tumin. Published Aug. 7, 2024 Updated Aug. 9, 2024. Leer en español.

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.

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.

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 ...

The iceberg, known as A23a, split from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. But it became stuck to the ocean floor and had remained for many years in the Weddell Sea .

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 ...