Eventually, iceberg A23a will break up and enter the waters of South Georgia. With climate change accelerating, this is likely to happen sooner rather than later.

A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square miles.

Iceberg A-23A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

Iceberg A68a floats near South Georgia Island. Also photographed is A68d, which broke from A68a around December 17. Approximately the size of a small island, the iceberg is big enough to get its ...

An enormous iceberg measuring roughly the length of Delaware broke off an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017. Now, that iceberg is headed directly for South Georgia Island — threatening to devastate ...

British government officials are monitoring the A-68A iceberg with drone and airplane flights from the Falkland Islands, which is about 960 miles away. South Georgia Island has no airstrip, and it ...

An iceberg larger than the state of Rhode Island that broke off an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017 is closing in on South Georgia Island, a British territory in the south Atlantic Ocean. The iceberg ...

The iceberg split off from the Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017. At more tha 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers), the chunk of ice encompassed an area 1.6 times the size of Rhode Island.

The mega-berg that last year threatened one of the world's largest marine nature reserves is no more. Measuring an incredible 2,187 square miles when it broke off Antarctica in 2017, iceberg A-68a ...

Iceberg A-68A (bottom left) nears South Georgia Island (far right) on Nov. 29, 2020. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel / processed by Pierre Markuse ...