The world’s largest iceberg is running, stopping from a remote island – National

World The largest icebergcalled A23Astopped because he seems to have launched shallow water from the remote island of southern Georgia after hovering around the southern ocean nearby Antarctica since 2020.

A23A, weighing 1.1 trillion tone, stopped from a remote British territorial island in the southern Atlantic Ocean, According to a statement from the British survey of Antarctica (bass) on Tuesday.

Dr. Andrew Meijers, Oceanographer in Bas, said that a plate with an icy trillion of a tone-tone megaberg-can “break, scatter and melt.”

“If the iceberg is left grounded, we do not expect it to significantly affect the local wilderness of southern Georgia … However, commercial fisheries are disturbed in the past, and as Berg breaks into smaller pieces, this could do fishing operations in the area and more difficult and potentially dangerous,” said Meijurs.

He added that “it would be interesting to see what happens” with A23a.

“From a scientific perspective, we want to see how the iceberg will affect the local ecosystem. Nutritional substances in alarm and melt can increase the availability of food for the entire regional ecosystem, including charismatic penguins and seals, “he said.

“We have several studies that are ongoing considering how” Megaberg “affect the circulation of the ocean, his chemistry and the ecosystems they support.”

The A23A flowed from the Filchner ice shelves in Antarctica in 1986 and remained grounded at the seafloor in the sea of ​​Weddell for over 30 years, BAS reports.

In January, Meijers called Megaberg as “a Game of Thrones The stylish wall of the ice that pulls over the ship. “

“The iceberg itself is colossal and extends from the horizon to the horizon,” Meiers said Associated Press at that time.

“When some waves break against him and if you pass a little sun, it’s really dramatic.”

For each part of the iceberg above the water surface, there are 10 times more, Meijers said.

In January, he predicted that in two to four weeks the iceberg would approach southern Georgia, where the water becomes shallow, and that it will enter into itself or slide.

“South Georgia is an incredibly ecologically rich island. It is a farm for a huge number of penguins, millions of penguins and seals, “Meijers said.” There are many puppies and chickens and they all still depend on their parents. “

Parents go out quite into the water and feed. The iceberg can block paths to their food, making adults to swim further, fall more energy, restoring less babies. “Unfortunately, it can dramatically increase mortality rates. And that happened in the past,” Meijers said.

20000., Another massive iceberg broke down in Antarctica and was in a potential collision course with southern Georgia, in the house thousands of penguins and seal.

The iceberg, known as the A68, looked like a giant hand showing his finger. He measured 150 kilometers and 48 kilometers wide, with an area of ​​almost large as well as Prince Edward Island. It was the greatest remnant of an even larger iceberg that exposed the ice shelf Larsen C. in July 2017.

There are no permanent settlements in the southern Georgia or nearby sandwich islands, but the UK holds two research bases and oversees commercial fishing in the area.

Many icebergs caught in shallow waters throughout the southern Georgia, where they stay and slowly melt over a long period of time.

Part of the massive iceberg known as the A38, he was aggressive in southern Georgia in 2004, causing a mass dying among the stamp puppies and penguins. Iceberg divided into twoleaving behind one piece that measured 70 kilometers long and 19 kilometers wide.

– With files from Associated Pressa and Global News

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