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The world's largest iceberg drifts through the Southern OceanLast spring, the iceberg got trapped in what scientists call a Taylor column. This is a fluid dynamics phenomenon that also occurs in the ocean: water rotating over an underwater mountain traps ...
Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had been stuck on the ocean floor near Antarctica for 37 years after splitting in 1986 from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf. But it began to ...
After being stuck for a long time, the jumbo iceberg is now drifting in the Southern Ocean. Scientists and satellites are tracking the berg’s movements to see how it might impact the ecosystems ...
Iceberg A23a (bottom left) and South Georgia Island (top right) as seen by Aqua's MODIS image on January 15, 2025. Credit: NASA. Most people picture icebergs like big floating boulders in the ocean.
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