Giant iceberg larger than New York City breaks off Antarctic shelf

A giant iceberg larger than New York City has broken away from the Antarctic ice shelf.  The separation took place last week near Britain’s Halley research station, with 490-square mile iceberg breaking off from the 492-feet thick Brunt Ice Shelf in a process called ‘calving’, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said.   It comes almost a decade after scientists … Read more

A68a: Iceberg that was once 3.5 times bigger than LONDON has disintegrated into an ‘alphabet soup’

Once three-and-a-half times bigger than London, the enormous A68 iceberg has now disintegrated into an ‘alphabet soup’ of individual fragments drifting in the ocean north of Antarctica, a NASA satellite photo revealed.  The image, taken by the so-called Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer onboard NASA’s ‘Terra’ Earth-observing satellite on February 12, shows that the giant berg has split into … Read more

New theory of interstellar visitor Oumuamua says it is NOT an alien craft, but a nitrogen iceberg

The interstellar visitor Oumuamua has baffled scientists since it passed through our Solar System in 2017, sparking a number of speculations as it left – a Harvard professor claims it is an alien traveler and others say it is a massive cosmic ‘dust bunny’ or just a comet. Now, a team from Arizona State University … Read more

A68a iceberg in Antarctica suffers another major split 

The ill-fated Atlantic iceberg A68 that broke off from Antarctica in 2017 has suffered another major spilt.  Between Tuesday and Thursday this week, a new smaller iceberg, called A68g, measuring 33 miles in length and 11.5 miles in width, calved from the largest remaining portion of the berg, A68a, in the South Atlantic Ocean.   The new split … Read more

Enormous A68a iceberg is pictured by the RAF as it breaks into city-sized chunks

The enormous A68a iceberg which broke off from Antarctica in 2017 and has been drifting dangerously close to the island of South Georgia recently is starting to fall apart.  New images from the RAF show how fragments of the once largest iceberg in the world are breaking away from the main bulk of the berg.  … Read more

World’s largest free-floating iceberg loses a 70 square miles chunk from its northernmost section

World’s largest free-floating iceberg loses a 70 square miles chunk from its northernmost section after slamming into the continental shelf surrounding South Georgia island Iceberg A68a is on a collision path with South Georgia island NASA satellites captured an image showing it lost a large chunk along the way The pieces is measures about 70 … Read more

Iceberg: Underwater robotic gliders to investigate mass on collision course with South Georgia

Robotic underwater gliders will be sent to investigate the massive iceberg presently on a collision course with the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, experts said. Dubbed A68a, the enormous mass — some 87 miles (140 km) in length — broke off from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017 and has been drifting north ever … Read more

Huge iceberg weighing hundreds of billions of tons closes in on South Georgia

A huge iceberg weighing hundreds of billions of tons is now just 30 miles away from South Georgia – threatening the habitat of millions of penguins. Iceberg A68a – which broke from the Antarctic’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 – slid towards the open ocean for over two years until it hit the powerful Circumpolar … Read more

First picture of trillion-ton iceberg travelling on devastating collision course with South Georgia

The first picture of the trillion-ton iceberg on a devastating collision course with South Georgia has been revealed.     Experts from around the world are anxiously monitoring the colossal ice sheet – roughly the size of Devon – as it creeps close to the shores of the British Overseas Territory.  Scientists are warning that the world’s largest … Read more