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The drifting giant A68 iceberg released billions of tons of fresh water in South Georgia ecosystem
Satellite images shows A68a heading towards the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Credit: MODIS from NASA Worldview Snapshots Scientists monitoring the giant A68a iceberg from space reveal ...
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A68a iceberg heading for South Georgia shifts direction and loses a chunk of mass
As the iceberg, dubbed A68a, approached the western shelf edge of the south Atlantic island this week, it encountered strong currents, causing it to pivot nearly 180 degrees, according to Geraint ...
World's biggest iceberg appears to have run aground near remote British island
The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground off the coast of a remote British island home to millions of penguins ...
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The Largest Iceberg In The World Has Become Trapped In An Ocean Vortex, Slowly Spinning In Circles Near The South Orkney Islands
The iceberg followed a route similar to the one that the iceberg A68a took. It also spent several months spinning. Usually, ...
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Weather satellite captures drift of giant iceberg
At 4,200 sq km in area, A68a is the world's biggest iceberg. It is slowly drifting away from Antarctica, where it calved, towards the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia. This movie was ...
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World’s largest iceberg runs aground near South Georgia
The world’s largest iceberg, known as A23a, has run aground on the continental shelf of South Georgia, around 90 kilometres ...
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World's biggest iceberg appears to have run aground near remote British island
In 2020, an iceberg called A68a — previously world's largest, and the sixth largest recorded iceberg of all time — split apart near the island after impacting the shelf. A 2022 study found ...