More than double the city of St. Paklo, the extension of the ice is unpredictable and dangerous.
The largest iceberg in the world is located on a collision path with a remote British island, potentially putting hazardous penguins and seals.
The iceberg is turning to the north, from Antarctica to Georgia do Sul, a buddy British territory that is a refuge for wildlife, where it could crash and shatter. Currently it is 280 kilometers away.
Numerous birds and seals died in the blankets and beaches of southern Georgia soothing when Iceberg Giganti prevented their diet in the past.
“Icebergs are intrinsically dangerous. I would be extremely happy if he simply did not reach us,” said Captain Simon Wallace to BBC News, speaking of the Pharos ship, which belongs to the Government of Georgia do Sul.

All over the world, a group of scientists, sailors and fishermen is impatiently checking the satellite images to monitor the daily movements of this colossal iceberg.
Known as A23a, it is one of the oldest in the world.
He detached himself from the Filchner ice platform in Antarctica in 1986, but was trapped in the lower part of the sea and then in an ocean vortex.
In the end, in December, he freed himself – and he is now on his last trip, accelerating towards the disappearance.
The hottest waters in the north of Antarctica are dissolving and weakening their vast cliffs that rise to 400 meters, more than ten times the height of Christ the Redeemer in Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro.
He also measured 3,900 km², but the latest satellite images show that they are slowly deteriorating. He currently has about 3,500 km², equivalent to the Belém area or more than double the city of San Paolo.
And great signals of ice are breaking, immersing themselves in the waters around the edges.
The A23a can fragment in large segments at any time, which can last for years, such as floating ice cities that navigate unnoticed in southern Georgia.

This is not the first giant iceberg to threaten southern Georgia and Sandwich islands.
In 2004, an iceberg called A38 came across its continental platform, causing the death of penguins and seals on the beaches, while huge pieces of ice blocked their access to food sites.
The territory is the home of precious pinguini kings, pinguini and millions of wolves from lights and wolves.
“Georgia do on an Iceberg alley, so the impacts are foreseen for both fishing and wildlife, and both have a great ability to adapt,” says Mark Belchier, a marine ecologist who advises the Government of Georgia do On the.
Sailors and fishermen say that icebergs are a growing problem. In 2023, an iceberg named A76 was surprised by them when he approached the ranking.
“His pieces were emerging, they looked like great ice towers, a city of ice on the horizon,” says Belchier, who saw the iceberg while at sea.
These plates still remain around the islands today.
“It is in pieces of the size of various stadiums of Wembley and even in pieces of the size of your table,” explains Andrew Newman of Argos Froyanes, a fishing company that works in Georgia do sul.
“These pieces substantially cover the island – we must open the way to travel them,” says Captain Wallace.
The sailors of your ship must always be aware. “We illuminated the spotlight all night to try to see the ice – it can appear from nothing,” he says.
The A76 was a “watershed”, according to Newman, with a “enormous impact on our operations and maintaining the safety of the ship and crew” “
All three describe a quick transformation environment, with visible glacial retreat year after year and volatile levels of sea ice.
It is unlikely that climate change were the cause of the emergence of the23a, since it was detached for a long time, before many of the impacts of the increase in the temperatures we are seeing now.
But the giants are part of our future. As the Antarctic becomes more unstable with the hottest temperatures of the ocean and air, more enormous pieces will break than the layers of ice.

But before his time, the A23a left a goodbye to scientists.
A British Antarctic Survey team that was on the RS Sir Sir David Attenborough research ship found himself near the A23a in 2023.
Scientists mobilized to explore the rare opportunity to investigate what megaiceberg do with the environment.

The ship sailed to a crack on the gigantic walls of Iceberg and the doctoral researcher Laura Taylor collected precious water samples 400 meters away from her cliffs.
“I saw a huge wall of ice much higher than me, as far as I could see. He has different colors in different places. The pieces were falling – it was magnificent”, he explains from his laboratory to Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, where It is now analysis of the champions.
His work analyzes the impact that the defrosting water is having on the carbon cycle in the Antarctic Ocean.

“It is not simply like the water we drink. It is full of nutrients and chemicals, as well as small animals such as the frozen phytoplankton inside,” says Taylor.
After merged the iceberg releases these elements in the water, altering ocean physics and chemistry.
This could store more carbon in the depths of the ocean while the particles sink on the surface. And of course they consider some of the planet carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change.
Icebergs are notoriously unpredictable – and nobody knows exactly what he will do following.
But soon this giant must appear on the horizon of the islands, as large as the territory itself.
Source: Terra

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