In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora of biodiverse species, South Georgia’s future was in question as A23a barreled toward it for almost five years.

When you tell people that you’re going to South Georgia, some will ask if you’re changing planes in Atlanta. In fact, the name belongs to an island near Antarctica. It’s about the size of ...

A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering through the South Atlantic and headed for the British Overseas Territory of the South Georgia Islands since last ...

Iceberg A-23A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

Island Insights . Until the 1982 conflict in the Falkland Islands commanded the world's attention, few had heard of South Georgia Island.

The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic known for its populations of penguins ...

According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke off from Antarctica and was reportedly going adrift in the South Atlantic, probably towards ...

South Georgia Island lies in 'Iceberg Alley' Icebergs are a regular threat to the British territory of South Georgia Island because it's near the Southern Hemisphere's version of "Iceberg Alley." ...

The South Georgia pipet is found nowhere else on Earth. Oliver Prince The island is around 160 kilometers (100 miles) long, with an area of 865,000 acres (350,000 hectares), and is frequently ...

South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean, more than a thousand miles east of the tip of South America, hasn’t changed much since Ernest Shackleton sailed ashore in 1916 to ...

“I’ve been coming here since 2014 – South Georgia just draws me back,” SGHT’s island director, Deirdre Mitchell, tells me. She spends six months on the island each season. “I’ve ...