New Satellite Imagery Shows One Of World’s Largest Iceberg Has Broken Into Pieces

One of the world’s largest icebergs that is three times the size of London has broken into separate fragments after drifting through the Atlantic Ocean.

The iceberg, known as A23a, was shown split apart in a satellite image taken in the Atlantic Ocean and released by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)on 1st December.

Roscosmos said the image was obtained by the Russian radar satellite Kondor-FKA and showed the drifting mass after it fractured.

The iceberg covered an area of 4,170 square kilometres (1,610 square miles) before it broke apart, which is roughly three times the size of Greater London.

It broke away from the outer edge of the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in September 1986, and for over 30 years, it remained grounded in the central part of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula and south of the Atlantic Ocean.

But in mid-November 2023, it began moving again when drifting currents carried it into open water.

Specialists are continuing to track its fragments to assess the possible consequences of its drift.