As A23a drifted it was eroded by waves in the relatively warmer waters of the Southern Ocean, carving huge arches and caves in the 400-meter-high walls of the iceberg.
It feels a bit odd to have developed an emotional attachment to an iceberg. Then again, we have spent years following the epic and quixotic journey of the iceberg designated as A23a, an enormous mass of ice weighing roughly one trillion tons that was once the world’s largest iceberg. The huge berg was, at about 3,500 square kilometres, more than three times larger than New York City. It also proved to be the world’s oldest iceberg, having calved from West Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf almost 60 years ago.
A23a’s career began slowly. In 1986, a massive iceberg calved off the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and immediately grounded on the floor of the Weddell Sea, where it remained stuck And there it sat for almost four decades. until it broke free in 2023. The iceberg began drifting quickly past the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, aided by strong winds and currents.
As it drifted, it was being eroded by waves and melting in the relatively warmer waters of the Southern Ocean. The impact of the waves carved huge arches and caves in the 400-meter-high walls of the iceberg.
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