World's Largest Iceberg Breaks Free in Antarctica
November 28, 2023
November 28, 2023
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 28 -- EcoWatch posted the following news:
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
The largest iceberg in the world -- A23a, nearly 1,500 square miles, about three times as big as New York City -- has broken free of its anchor on the floor of the Weddell Sea and begun to drift toward the Southern Ocean.
In 1986, the Antarctic iceberg calved off the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the western part of the continent, quickly becoming stuck on the seafloor . . .
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
The largest iceberg in the world -- A23a, nearly 1,500 square miles, about three times as big as New York City -- has broken free of its anchor on the floor of the Weddell Sea and begun to drift toward the Southern Ocean.
In 1986, the Antarctic iceberg calved off the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the western part of the continent, quickly becoming stuck on the seafloor . . .