In the past two months, the iceberg, known as 'A68', has taken a drastic 90 degree swing away from the Antarctic mainland and into the Southern Ocean. The A68 iceberg is the sixth-largest ever ...

Laura Gerrish, GIS and mapping specialist at BAS and co-author of the study said, “A68 was an absolutely fascinating iceberg to track all the way from its creation to its end. Frequent ...

A23a calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 and remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over ...

Scientists at the time estimated iceberg A68 to be about the size of Maryland. It measured 1,000 feet thick and weighed 1.1 million tons - roughly the weight of 20 million Titanic ships.

The waters around South Georgia are part of "Iceberg Alley," a region where icebergs from Antarctica are pushed north by currents. While massive icebergs like A68, which broke off from the Larsen ...