A 1550 square km (963 sq mi.) iceberg, designated A81 broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. A time-lapse of the 'calving ...

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 ...

"It's exciting to see A23a on the move again after periods of being stuck," oceanographer Andrew Meijers said.

A23a is twice the size of Greater London and will likely break up and melt as it drifts north The world's biggest iceberg is on the move again after being trapped in a vortex for most of the year.

The iceberg’s journey provides a significant ... A23a weighs almost a trillion tons, and, as of August, spanned 1,418-square-miles (3,672 square kilometers), making it twice as big as Greater ...

As of Friday, A-23A is about 1,062 square miles in area, according to the U.S. National Ice Center, making it about twice the size of Los Angeles. The iceberg was previously bigger, about the size ...

They focused on the single largest iceberg to form each year from 1976 to 2023. These icebergs had surface areas up to 11,000 square kilometers (4,247 square miles). The study revealed that the ...

Monster iceberg just under a trillion tonnes Attenborough ... Could A23a, with its own square-like dimensions, be similarly long-lived?

or 2,239 square miles) A-68 iceberg in 2017, can destabilize ice shelves and capture the public's attention. But the infrequency of extreme calving events makes it difficult for scientists to ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission show how A23a rotated between ...