In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora of biodiverse species, South Georgia’s future was in question as A23a barreled toward it for almost five years.

The iceberg A23a has run aground in the shallow waters off of South Georgia, a remote British territory in the Southern Atlantic, researchers say. Latest U.S.

According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke off from Antarctica and was reportedly going adrift in the South Atlantic, probably towards ...

Iceberg A-23A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

According to the British Antarctic Survey research organization, the mass known as A23a has stopped drifting and run aground on South Georgia, an unpopulated island that is part of the British ...

As of Jan. 16, the megaberg, known as A23a, is roughly 180 miles (290 kilometers) away from South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, according to location coordinates from the U.S. National ...

A23a megaberg: Game of Thrones style ice wall on course to hit British island. The world’s largest iceberg, stretching from horizon to horizon, is on course to hit South Georgia Island ...

An infographic titled "A23a iceberg headed toward collision with South Georgia" created in Ankara, Turkiye on January 23, 2025. Omar Zaghloul/Anadolu via Getty Images ...

The iceberg, A23a, broke free from its position north of the South Orkney Islands last month and is now heading towards South Georgia, where it could crash into the island. Researchers tracking ...

Right now, iceberg A23a is floating about 180 miles (~290 kilometers) off the coast of South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It turns out, A23a is the largest iceberg in the Earth's oceans ...

An iceberg seen on NASA’s Aqua satellite, known as A23a, center, is visible as it heads toward South Georgia Island, top, on Jan. 15, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica.