The oldest and largest iceberg on Earth landed on a sub-Antarctic island belonging to Britain Tuesday. According to the British Antarctic Survey research organization, the mass known as A23a has ...

Researchers describe its path toward South Georgia as both meandering and intriguing, as the iceberg has charted a somewhat unexpected route to the island and became trapped last year in a rotating ...

The drifting iceberg released itself free three decades after it latched onto the seafloor of the Weddell Sea but was once ...

For months late last year, the iceberg was trapped in a ‘Taylor column’ which kept it spinning in one spot. It is now grounded on the continental shelf around 56 miles (90km) from South ...

Science and technology editor Tom Clarke has been flying over A23a, the world's largest iceberg, and seen first-hand its vast ...

The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground off ... an oceanic vortex called a Taylor Column, which trapped it spinning in place for months on end. Since wriggling out of the vortex ...

ANTARCTICA: The world's largest and oldest iceberg A23a has finally come to a standstill as it appears to have run aground ...

One thousand feet above the world's largest iceberg, it's hard to believe what you're seeing. It stretches all the way to the horizon - a field of white as far as the eye can see. Its edge looks ...

The British Antarctic Survey says nutrients from the grounding and melting of the megaberg known as ‘A23a’ may boost food for penguins and seals.

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A23a, as the iceberg is officially known ... caught in a current known as a Taylor column near the South Orkney Islands. Escaping after several months of spinning, it then headed for South ...

The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground off the coast of a remote British island home to millions of penguins ...