Millions of seals and penguins are threatened by a very large iceberg drifting toward their remote island in the South ...

A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

It has been drifting toward the remote island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic ... hang together for longer," Meijers said. Known as A23a, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg calved ...

But this geographic event has instigated several questions as to how the iceberg will now affect the natural ecosystem of South Georgia Island. It's about one trillion tons in weight and has an area ...

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named A23a, is seen in Antarctica on Jan. 14, 2024, in this picture obtained from social media. The iceberg had been stuck in a rotating water column near the South Orkney Islands since last April ...

Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had ... The iceberg had been stuck in a rotating water column near the South Orkney Islands since last April, said Andrew Meijers from the British ...

said that icebergs such as A23a "are so deep that before reaching an island or mainland they generally get stuck" on the seabed. It is summer in South Georgia and resident penguins and seals along ...