A 130-foot towering wall of ice with a surface area larger than Rhode Island is slowly making its way toward a remote island near Antarctica. Imagine if the ice wall from Game of Thrones were mobile ...

The world’s largest iceberg is heading towards a remote British island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean and could ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

A23a, a massive iceberg nearly the size of Rhode Island, towering at 40 meters, is on a collision course with South Georgia.

The iceberg cometh. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 square miles in size and located about 173 miles from the ...

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

Environmentalists fear for the island's rare king penguins and millions of elephant and fur seals if iceberg collides.

According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke ... adrift in the South Atlantic, probably towards South Georgia Island.

Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.

If A23a, an Antarctic iceberg the size of Rhode Island, grounds off South Georgia Island, it will create a hazard for wildlife and ships alike.

A23a has followed roughly the same ... said he was confident the iceberg would sidestep South Georgia. "The island acts as an obstacle for ocean currents and therefore usually diverts the water ...