World’s Largest, Oldest Iceberg Runs Aground Near Antarctic Island
A23a weighs nearly a trillion metric tons, making it the world’s largest active iceberg. It calved from Antarctica in 1986, making it the world’s oldest berg. And now, after drifting for half a decade, A23a has grounded itself about 56 miles (90 kilometers) south of South Georgia.
March 4 (UPI) -- The oldest and largest iceberg on Earth landed on a sub-Antarctic island belonging to Britain Tuesday.
THE world’s biggest iceberg which is twice the size of Greater London has run aground after heading ominously toward a ...
In the process, they have also found an explanation for the mysterious discovery of ancient material from Antarctica near South Orkney, an island to the southwest of South Georgia. Ice caps ...
Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in ...
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