World's Largest Iceberg Escapes Antarctic, Crashes Into Remote Island

The world's largest iceberg, roughly four times the size of New York City, has run aground after crashing into a remote island in the South Atlantic ocean. As the New York Times reports, the event is an early warning sign of what's still to come as global warming is causing major changes in the Antarctic Peninsula. The iceberg, dubbed A23a, had been confined for decades to the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic. Then it started to move in 2020 after becoming unmoored from the sea floor. In 2023, it left Antarctic waters and started traveling north. Then this spring it started spinning, becoming trapped in an ocean current near the South Orkney Islands. Now, it's run into the continental shelf roughly 50 miles from South Georgia Island, an extremely remote and mountainous British territory 870 miles east of the Falkland Islands. The island is technically not permanently inhabited, but is frequently visited by polar ocean cruises and researchers. A23a is absolutely massive, having b ... Read full article.