World's largest iceberg, A23a, is disintegrating into thousands of pieces alongside penguin refuge — Earth from space

World's Largest Iceberg Set To Lose Its Title As It Disintegrates Into "Starry Night" Of Ice

Its fate is “all but certain,” NASA confirmed.

Satellite Photo Captures the Demise of the World's Largest Iceberg

An incredible new satellite image taken by NASA shows the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, rapidly breaking apart as it remains lodged off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

The Largest Iceberg on Earth Is Stuck

The world’s largest iceberg has been through a lot. Born in 1986, when it broke off from Antarctica, it has since traveled the rough seas of the Drake Passage, got trapped spinning in circles in an ocean gyre, and now seems to be stuck on a shallow shelf just off the coast of South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . And a new satellite image of the massive iceberg shows that in its …

World's largest iceberg, A23a, is disintegrating into thousands of pieces alongside penguin refuge — Earth from space

A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice chunks around the Antarctic island of South Georgia.