World’s largest iceberg grounded

The world’s largest iceberg has got stuck on the sea floor around 55 miles from South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The iceberg, called A23a, has been drifting north from Antarctica towards the island since 2020. Researchers worried that it would hit South Georgia, which is home to lots of wildlife, but this may no longer be a risk now the iceberg has come to a halt. A23a, which weighs nearly one trillion tonnes, first formed in 1986. It was once about 3,900 square kilometres but it has been shrinking over time. Even so, it is still twice the size of Greater London. It broke off from the Filchner Ice Shelf, which is a large area of ice floating in the Weddell Sea off the coast of…

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