The "megaberg" - which is twice the size of Greater London and 130 feet tall - is on a crash course with the remote island of South Georgia, and could make it hard for the millions of penguins and seals there to feed.

The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with the British territory of South Georgia - potentially putting millions of penguins and seals in danger.

The trillion-tonne slab of ice, named A23a, broke free from its position last month and started drifting northwards.

The “megaberg” - which is twice the size of Greater London and 130 feet tall - is expected to approach the remote island off Antarctica in the next two to four weeks.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•13 days ago

    It’s probably 400’ deep (i.e. draft) too then.

    It’s almost incomprehensibly huge.

    • @[email protected]English
      17•12 days ago

      During the ice age the size of the Laurentide ice sheet was over 4km (2.5 miles) thick and 13m km2 (5m miles2)

      This is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, except it’s another mind-blowingly huge piece of ice.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•12 days ago

        It’s a random fun fact and I suck them up like a sponge.

        edit: soak. I soak them up like a sponge. That’s the word I couldn’t remember.