The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again, drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning on the same spot, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the U.S. National Ice Center, the world's largest iceberg, named A23a, has broken up. As of August 2025, iceberg A23f ...

The largest and oldest iceberg in the world, named A23a, is on the move again after being stuck in a votex for months near the South Orkney Islands. It is now drifting in the Southern Ocean. The ...

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The end came in March 2026, when the United States National Ice Center reported that A23a had become too small to continue tracking.

The world's largest iceberg is on the move for the first time in more than three decades, scientists said on Friday. At almost 4,000 square km (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called A23a ...

The world's formerly largest iceberg, A23a, has been transformed into a beautiful blob of stripy "blue mush," signaling its imminent demise, new satellite photos reveal. The dying ice mass, which ...

The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large chunks,” scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said. Previously weighing nearly a trillion metric ...

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