The world’s largest iceberg A23a got stuck to the bottom before a collision in South Georgia

World The largest iceberg seems to have driven and stuck 70 kilometers from the island of South Georgia in Southern Atlantic, reports AFP.

The fear has been that the iceberg collides with the island or runs so close to the island that the penguins and seals on its shores cannot feed their chicks. Food search behind a gigantic ice mass could be too long.

There is no permanent human settlement on the island of Britain.

Iceberg The A23A is so huge that its area would cover a third of the new country. It has been drifting towards South Georgia since 2020.

The British Antarctic Research Organization Bas says they have found that the A23A has remained in place since March 1.

“If it stays on the bottom, we do not expect it to have a significant impact on local nature,” BAS’s marine researcher Andrew Meijers said to AFP. Meijers has been following the A23A movements on satellite observations since 2023.

It is uncertain whether the iceberg has stuck permanently.

A23A Sloted from Antarctic’s ice shelf in 1986. Later it was caught on the seabed for over 30 years. In 2020 it came off and began to drift north. Occasionally it has stopped to rotate in place, but then continued on the journey towards South Georgia.

In recent decades, many icebergs have been drifted to South Atlantic, but they have soon broken and melted. The A23A has not been a lot of crumbling on the basis of satellite images, but in January it was 19 kilometers long.

In its current location, the iceberg could even benefit the fauna of the area, Meijers thinks. Nutrients melting from the bottom of the iceberg and plowed from the seabed can feed the entire ecosystem, including penguins and seals.

According to Meijers, they have had a bad year because of bird flu.