What We Know About The World's Biggest Iceberg

What We Know About The World's Biggest Iceberg

For 40 years, one iceberg has held the title of "world's biggest." Now, the giant floating chunk of ice is losing its superlative status. Here's what we know.

The World's Largest Iceberg is Falling Apart - SnowBrains

The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is breaking apart. Credit: Rob Suisted/Reuters For decades, A23a has loomed as one of the most famous icebergs on Earth. Weighing nearly a trillion metric tons and once stretching over 1,418 square miles (3,600 square kilometers)—larger than Rhode Island or about three times the size of Los Angeles—the so-called “megaberg” has been drifting through the Southern Ocean since it calved from Antarctica’s Filchner-R…