An Iceberg the Size of South Georgia Island is on a Collision Course with… South Georgia Island

An Iceberg the Size of South Georgia Island is on a Collision Course with… South Georgia Island
By Evan Gough

Back in July 2017, satellites watched as an enormous iceberg broke free from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. The trillion-ton behemoth has been drifting for over three years now. While it stayed close to its parent ice shelf for the first couple of years, it’s now heading directly for a collision …

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November 19, 2020 at 01:47AM
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