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Europe’s Sentinel-3 satellite captured iceberg A23a near South Georgia, revealing its massive size, movement, and gradual ...
Known as A23a, the megaberg weighs almost one trillion tonnes and measures 3,900 square kilometers (1,500 square miles) in size – that’s twice as big as Greater London. From top to bottom ...
A23A's ice cover is 985 feet thick, and the iceberg's mass could be as much as a trillion tons. However, it is expected to decrease daily, as BBC News noted. A23A continues its journey ...
A23a is 3900 square kilometres in area, making it more than twice the size of Greater London and more than four times the size of New York City. It is 400 metres thick and it once housed a Soviet ...
A23a was confirmed to be intact and 173 miles from South Georgia A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering through the South Atlantic and headed for the ...
Southwest of South Georgia and stretching further than the eye can see, Iceberg A23a is 40 miles wide and a total of 3,100 Sq Km, making it larger than Greater London. It is also estimated to be ...
Slightly smaller than Rhode Island, A23a originally split from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986 and then remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over 30 years, according to ...
The world's biggest iceberg, A23a, has grounded in shallow waters off South Georgia, a remote South Atlantic British island home to millions of penguins and seals. The iceberg, which is roughly ...
Scientists now have good numbers to describe the true scale of the world's biggest iceberg, A23a. Satellite measurements show the frozen block has a total average thickness of just over 280m (920ft).
The near-trillion-tonne frozen block, A23a, began its spin at the beginning of the year, while holding broadly the same position just north of the Antarctic Peninsula. The berg is expected shortly ...