An iceberg the size of Rhode Island is on the move again after spending months trapped in a whirling ocean vortex ... but became grounded in the Weddel Sea shortly afterward, where it would ...

A68, a colossus that broke free from the Antarctic in 2017, has pushed so far north it is now at the limit of the continent's perennial sea-ice ... reaches the Southern Ocean's rougher waters.

A23a is the heavyweight iceberg champion of the world. It weighs over a trillion tons. After being stuck for a long time, the jumbo iceberg is now drifting in the Southern Ocean. Scientists and ...

The huge iceberg, which is 3,800 square kilometres, broke free of Antarctica in 1986 but, because of its size, became lodged on the floor of the Weddell Sea in the Southern Ocean. A23a first began ...

It is now embarking on a new journey, as it begins drifting in the Southern Ocean ... Weddell Sea, before beginning its slow journey north in 2020. In February this year, the iceberg became ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey announced on Friday that the colossal iceberg, designated A23a, is floating across the Southern Ocean ... in the Weddell Sea until it got trapped ...

Then, in 2020, the iceberg started moving again. Ocean currents and the wind were pushing A23a through the Weddell Sea at a rate of up to three miles per day, researchers said late last year.

The iceberg remained stationary for approximately 34 years. But in 2020, ocean currents began moving it and it started drifting toward the western part of the Weddell Sea. During its journey ...

as it was riding the ocean currents from the Weddell Sea to the Southern Ocean toward South America, NASA said. Known as "Iceberg Alley," this path would have brought the iceberg to warmer waters ...