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The world’s largest iceberg could threaten a remote southern Atlantic island that serves as a refuge for thousands of penguins and seals, who would no longer be able to feed properly, scientists have warned.
Global warming has caused the separation of icebergs from Antarctica, such as the A68, a giant, one-thousand-ton ice mass that separated in 2017 from the Larsen C glacier shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.
With the speed at which it moves, it will take between 20 and 30 days to reach the shallow waters surrounding South Georgia, an island under British sovereignty.
160 kilometres long, 48 kilometres wide but less than 200 metres high, the iceberg could be dangerously approaching the coast of the island, with a 50 percent chance of a collision, British scientist Andrew Fleming, who monitors Antarctica, told AFP news agency.
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