World’s largest iceberg breaks apart in dramatic collapse | World | News
The world’s largest refrigerator, known as A23A, is now approaching the end of his life 40 years after leaving the edge of Antarctica. This “Megaberg” is more than twice the Great London and the same size as Rhode Island, slightly below a trillion tone.
At one point, A23A briefly threatened the Penguin feeding areas of South Georgia on the Far South Atlantic Ocean Island. However, Megaberg is now divided into smaller pieces and is unlikely to survive by the end of November. According to Ted Sambos, an ice scientist at the University of Colorado, it may face a sudden and magnificent collapse, such as ice avalanche at sea. “It’s interesting to watch, it’s absolutely unseen,” he explained to the AP News. “But every time they happen, it’s a great gorgeous event.”
A23A first left in 1986 by Antarctica’s Filchner -ronne ice shelf, which firstly noticed scientists in the 1950s and called “big flying”. Later, until the liberation in 2020 and began to dragged to the north in the late 2023, he approached the southern continent in the world for about thirty and a half years grounded to the sea base of the Weddell Sea.
Then, in August last year, he returned again in a vortex of an ocean known as the Taylor column. In March, he stayed 40 miles on the shores of South Georgia.
The refrigerator has already created smaller pieces called A23D, A23E and A23F. Last week’s NASA satellite images showed that smaller Bergs were still connected to the A23A a few days ago.
“He’s dragged in the north so far, in a place where the icebergs can’t survive, Sam Sambos explained that this is a part of the normal life cycle of the icebergs – he added that it doesn’t seem part of climate change that has occurred for thousands of years.
“It is still quite thick, but much thinner than he left the continent,” he continued. “And now, it stretches with long -term waves with tides that sweep the region […] He finds weak spots in the iceberg and they are broken. “
Orum I’m waiting for your disappointment to accelerate, and Andrew Meijers of the British Antarctica Study, at the end of the season, predicts that A23A will quickly disintegrate as it moves further north.
Mr. Sambos added that if he survived the Spring of Antarctica, he would be even more ruthless in summer and that the possibility of disintegration on a single day could be even more ruthless.
According to Mr. Meijers, the world’s largest refrigerator is the D15A, which is almost twice as large as the shrinking A23A.
