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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

He said: “The iceberg A23a is now moving with the prevailing current towards the island of South Georgia, after having been 'trapped' spinning around a submarine mountain for several months ...

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 world's biggest iceberg -- more than twice the size of London -- could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals.

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 ...