Giant iceberg menacing South Georgia Island breaks up into smaller pieces The largest iceberg on Earth right now has not been immune to ocean currents, waves and milder ocean temperatures.

A satellite view of iceberg A-68A as it approached South Georgia island in late 2020. Image: MODIS from NASA Worldview Snapshots Iceberg A-68a—the sixth largest in recorded history—released a ...

Satellites track the world's largest iceberg drifting toward South Georgia Island, threatening its vulnerable penguin and seal populations.

Why remote South Georgia just happens to be the greatest island on Earth For wildlife close encounters in one of the world’s remotest places, there’s nowhere like South Georgia, says Mark Stratton ...

Satellite images indicate that an iceberg 158 km (98 mi) long and 48 km (30 mi) wide is floating towards the island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic, where it could cause damage to the ...

The nearest land is the Falkland Islands, about 800 miles away. Thanks to its distance from civilization, South Georgia Island has remained a haven for wildlife with very little human interference.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the island of South Georgia. Linked with the South Sandwich Islands to form a British Overseas Territory, this southern Atlantic island is a haven ...

Frequent cloud cover in the southern Atlantic Ocean often obscures satellite images of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. But occasionally the clouds give way. On September 14, 2016 ...

South Georgia is a place that has repeatedly fallen into—and repelled—humanity’s clutches. There is so much life in this seemingly inhospitable place, it is easy to view it as the Edenic ideal.

Newly released satellite footage shows the world’s largest iceberg running aground near a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean last month. The timelapse video, published by Colorado State ...

Then, in 2020, satellite images and military recon flights showed that the giant iceberg was on a collision course with South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic, which is one of the world's ...

A series of ecological initiatives, including the eradication of several invasive species, has dramatically revived the life and landscape of this remote sub-Antarctic island.