The world’s largest iceberg, A23, is fragmenting into smaller pieces according to alarming NASA satellite images.

In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora of biodiverse species, South Georgia’s future was in question as A23a barreled toward it for almost five years.

The A23a iceberg, deemed the largest in the world since 2023, was seen losing large chunks of ice after drifting toward the ...

A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice ...

“Humans completely exploited the island and drove most animals towards extinction but now everything is rebounding.” Since James Cook claimed it for Britain in 1775, South Georgia has been ...

which will likely push it toward South Georgia Island, where it will encounter warmer waters that would break it into smaller icebergs until it melts away. BAS oceanographer Andrew Meijers ...

South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized world and trapped in the most cruel of climates, but it was destined for discovery. From its first recorded sightings more than 300 years ago ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...

the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) has announced the successful transition of ownership of Pharos Marine Limited (part of the Falklands based Byron group ...

The largest iceberg in the world has split off into thousands of smaller chunks after colliding with an Antarctic island. The A23a iceberg, which NASA had deemed the largest in the world since 2023, ...