The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting the area.

An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be crumbling, scientists told AFP on Friday.

The result could spell trouble for wildlife on those islands, and A23a's movement is a predictor of more similar occurrences as climate change worsens. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 ...

A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering ... before it became stuck again in a Taylor column, a spinning vortex of water caused by ocean currents hitting ...

The world's largest iceberg is on the move, and could be set to reach a remote British island. Known as the 'queen of icebergs', it's spinning northwards from Antarctica towards South Georgia, a ...

a phenomenon that keeps objects spinning in place. In December, A23a spun free of the vortex and has since been on the move through what ecologists call ‘iceberg alley’ located between the ...

Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic ... by ocean forces that kept it spinning in place. In 2023, the British ...

The iceberg is spinning northwards from Antarctica towards ... the daily movements of this queen of icebergs. It is known as A23a and is one of the world's oldest. It calved, or broke off, from ...

The iceberg, called A23a, was previously “trapped” spinning around an undersea mountain for several months, according to Andrew Meijers, a physical oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey.

The world's largest and oldest iceberg, called A23a, weighs nearly a trillion tonnes, and has been spinning northwards from Antarctica since December. Now, it is on a direct collision course with ...

The huge iceberg A23a measures almost 1,500 square miles, roughly twice the size of Greater London, and is as tall as the Shard in London. Dr Andrew Meijers, physical oceanographer at British ...