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.
130 feet tall with 9/10 underwater means about 400 meters thich. Nice. Also :
“The whole ecosystem in the Southern Ocean is very resilient to these events,” he wrote. “It has evolved with these icebergs being a factor for hundreds of thousands of years.”
twice the size of Greater London and 130 feet tall
Fucking hell.
It’s probably 400’ deep (i.e. draft) too then.
It’s almost incomprehensibly huge.
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.
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.
This sounds like a mechanical engineering test question.
This is the plot to Happy Feet 2.
