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A68a: Iceberg that was once 3.5 times bigger than LONDON has disintegrated into an ‘alphabet soup’

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Once three-and-a-half times bigger than London, the enormous A68 iceberg has now disintegrated into an ‘alphabet soup’ of individual fragments drifting in the ocean north of Antarctica, a NASA satellite photo revealed.  The image, taken by the so-called Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer onboard NASA’s ‘Terra’ Earth-observing satellite on February 12, shows that the giant berg has split into … Read more

A68a iceberg in Antarctica suffers another major split 

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The ill-fated Atlantic iceberg A68 that broke off from Antarctica in 2017 has suffered another major spilt.  Between Tuesday and Thursday this week, a new smaller iceberg, called A68g, measuring 33 miles in length and 11.5 miles in width, calved from the largest remaining portion of the berg, A68a, in the South Atlantic Ocean.   The new split … Read more

Enormous A68a iceberg is pictured by the RAF as it breaks into city-sized chunks

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The enormous A68a iceberg which broke off from Antarctica in 2017 and has been drifting dangerously close to the island of South Georgia recently is starting to fall apart.  New images from the RAF show how fragments of the once largest iceberg in the world are breaking away from the main bulk of the berg.  … Read more

Enormous A68a iceberg is pictured by the RAF as it breaks into city-sized chunks

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The enormous A68a iceberg which broke off from Antarctica in 2017 and has been drifting dangerously close to the island of South Georgia recently is starting to fall apart.  New images from the RAF show how fragments of the once largest iceberg in the world are breaking away from the main bulk of the berg.  … Read more