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In 2020, iceberg A68 stirred fears that it would collide with South Georgia and crush marine life on the sea floor. But it eventually broke into smaller chunks.
The A68 iceberg was born—a chunk of ice the size of Delaware with a mass of about 10 percent of the shelf itself. For most of 2017, the berg didn’t move much.
The iceberg that was once the largest in the world has melted into several small fragments that are no longer worth tracking. A68 weighed billions of tons and was bigger than Norfolk when it broke ...
Iceberg A68, or A68a as it's sometimes called (to denote it's now the parent of smaller icebergs), calved from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017.
The iceberg that was for a time the biggest in the world is no more. A68, as it was known, covered an area of nearly 6,000 sq km (2,300 sq miles) when it broke away from Antarctica in 2017.
Named A68, it's one of the largest icebergs on record. This month, the iceberg got a nudge from powerful winds and is now on its way into the nearby Weddell Sea.
The world’s largest iceberg, ... A23a could end up suffering the same fate as A76 and another massive iceberg, A68, which also broke into smaller chunks as it entered warmer waters.
A68 was, for a short period, the world's biggest iceberg. It covered an area of nearly 6,000 sq km (2,300 sq miles) when it broke free from Antarctica in 2017. But by early 2021, it had vanished.
The world’s biggest iceberg, weighing more than one trillion tons, is on the move. Iceberg A68 is moving along the Antarctic Peninsula, as seen from a satellite animation from the Copernicus … ...
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Antarctica's A68a iceberg, the continent's sixth-largest in recorded history, is still floating more than a year after it broke off. It weighs about 1 trillion tons, is about the size of Maryland ...