Satellites watch world's largest iceberg on crash course with Antarctic penguin island (photo/video)
Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg according to AFP News. Its imposing size and slow, steady movement have captivated oceanographers and researchers alike, though predicting its exact path has proven difficult due to the unpredictable forces of ocean currents.
Dive into a bit of history in the waters surrounding this remote Antarctic island, the site of famed explorer Sir Ernest ...
For over 30 years, the A23a iceberg stayed anchored to the Antarctic Weddell Sea floor before it shrank and lost its grip on the seafloor which turned it into a massive floating fragment of ice. The ...
He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island ... on the remote but inhabited island of South Georgia. That they survived such a long voyage despite stormy weather ...
Lectures on board prepared us for an island best known for where Sir Ernest Shackleton escaped to in 1916 after Endurance sank in Antarctica. South Georgia receives around 16,000 travellers ...
Viking's 19-day Antarctica and South Georgia Island expedition begins with an overnight stay in Buenos Aires followed by a flight the next morning to Ushuaia, one of the world's southernmost ...
The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica ...
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