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The world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, is on a collision course with South Georgia Island, a delicate ecosystem that is home to penguins and seals.

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But it began to move again last year and is now approaching South Georgia Island, a small island mainly populated by penguins and seals. The iceberg had been stuck in a rotating water column near ...

This time, an iceberg the size of Rhode Island could park itself near South Georgia Island. "South Georgia is an amazingly ecologically rich island," British Antarctic Survey physical ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia ... of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 to make his storied ...

Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.