The island lies ... for Britain in 1775, South Georgia has been rather mournful. By the time Ernest Shackleton washed up here on a small lifeboat in 1916 after escaping Antarctica when the ...

A23a, the world’s largest and oldest iceberg, broke off Antarctica nearly 40 years ago. In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora of biodiverse ...

According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke off from Antarctica ... in the South Atlantic, probably towards South Georgia Island.

Whaling 1950 statistics, 30.000 hunted in Antarctica, despite “poor season in South Georgia” The cephalopods market faces tight supply and rising prices, FAO report Other countries stop buying ...

The massive iceberg broke free from Antarctica in 1986, but only recently began veering toward South Georgia. An enormous iceberg known as A23a is heading towards South Georgia: a remote island in ...

The world's biggest iceberg, with a Game of Thrones style ice wall, is closing in on South Georgia Island off Antarctica. If the iceberg, known as A23a, becomes hung up in the waters around the ...

South Georgia Island ... southern tip of the main island when he realized this was not continental Antarctica. An officer of the Royal Navy, Cook named it The Isle of Georgia in honor of his ...

The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica toward the island of South Georgia. The iceberg, called A23a, was previously ...