World’s largest iceberg ‘moves’ after 37 years of stagnation
Space experts tracking the world’s largest iceberg announced on Friday that the iceberg is currently moving away from the waters of the Antarctic towards the South Atlantic Ocean.
The massive iceberg, covering an area of 4,000 square kilometers and named ‘A-23A,’ deviated from the Fletcher Ronne Ice Shelf in the west of the Antarctic continent in 1986 but remained stuck at the seafloor for a long period.
Although the iceberg, with a thickness of 400 meters, had freed itself by 2020, it is now only moving away from the Weddell Sea due to winds and currents, as reported by the European Space Agency.
It is unusual for icebergs to remain stationary on land, but over time, they shrink enough to detach from the land and float.
Like most icebergs in the Weddell sector, the ‘A-23A’ iceberg, which is more than four times the size of New York City, is likely to end up in the South Atlantic Ocean on a path known as the iceberg alley.
