Another effort, aboard a South African icebreaker vessel, is planned for January 2019, Scambos says. An expedition by biologists to the area ended prematurely in February when thick ice prevented the ship from reaching the area ( SN Online: 3/3/18). The latest satellite pictures show A68a - the iceberg official name - with large cracks and pieces. That environment could contain microbes and other tiny critters that have been inaccessible until now ( SN Online: 10/13/17). A giant iceberg thats been drifting through the South Atlantic Ocean has broken into pieces.
It was in Iceberg Alley that the Titanic ship struck an iceberg and. Notably, the area where this iceberg was spotted is known as the 'Iceberg Alley, and it is common for people to witness such a massive block of ice. Scientists are eager to study the seabed that was exposed when the iceberg first broke away. A ginormous iceberg was seen drifting towards the shores of a Canadian island, Newfoundland, leaving many netizens in awe. “Currents and winds carry most of the icebergs in the same direction” - toward South Georgia Island, where many Antarctic icebergs eventually thin out and melt away, Scambos says. The iceberg may still be able to escape if it can twist around the tip of Bawden. If it were destabilized, that could potentially lead to the collapse of the rest of the shelf, which could have implications for sea level rise.
The Bawden ice rise acts “almost like scaffolding,” providing structure and stability to Larsen C, Hogg says. That could be a problem, says Anna Hogg, an earth observation researcher at the University of Leeds in England. Researchers monitoring satellite images of the iceberg say it’s been battering Bawden as winds and ocean currents push against the calved ice. PARIS (AFP) - A giant iceberg that detached from Antarctica in 2017 released the equivalent of 61 million Olympic-sized swimming pools of fresh water as it melted.
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