The World’s Largest Iceberg is Falling Apart For decades, A23a has loomed as one of the most famous icebergs on Earth. Weighing nearly a trillion metric tons and once stretching over 1,418 square miles (3,600 square kilometers)—larger than Rhode Island or about three times the size of Los Angeles—the so-called “megaberg” has been drifting through the Southern Ocean since it calved from Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in […] Industry News Brent Glogau | September 12, 2025 0 Comments
NASA: The World’s Largest Iceberg Has Just Run Aground This post first appeared on NASA Earth Observatory. Antarctic iceberg A-23A, currently the largest iceberg on Earth, appears to have run aground off the coast of South Georgia island. As of early March 2025, satellite images showed little movement of the 3,460-square-kilometer (1,240-square-mile) berg after its long and winding journey across the Scotia Sea and final approach toward the island. […] SnowBrains | March 12, 2025 0 Comments
NASA: Sizing Up a Tabular Iceberg This post first appeared on NASA Earth Observatory and was written by Kathryn Hansen In terms of size, only one iceberg can reign supreme at a time—a position recently held by Iceberg A-76 in the Weddell Sea. When the ‘berg calved from Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf in May 2021, it became the largest iceberg floating anywhere in the world. Related: […] Brains SnowBrains | June 3, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Tracking a Huge Antarctic Iceberg’s Epic 1,500-Mile Journey [arve url="https://youtu.be/JxdcBNp0cTE"] SnowBrains | April 22, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
NASA: The Story Behind the New Iceberg Twice the Size of Chicago This post first appeared on NASA’s Earth Observatory Site Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf finally calved a large iceberg in February 2021, two years after rifts opened rapidly across the ice and raised concerns about the shelf’s stability. The break was first detected by GPS equipment on February 26, 2021, and then confirmed the next day with radar images from the […] Brains SnowBrains | March 4, 2021 0 Comments
Amazing 45 Foot Tall “Ice Volcano” Forms in Kazakhstan An “Ice Volcano” towering 45 feet above the earth has recently formed near the Almaty region in Kazakhstan. The formation results from an underground spring that sprays water up from the ground, which instantly freezes. This is the second spotted in the region, and it has attracted many tourists to the area. Related: Watch – The Incredible Ice Volcano The three […] Industry News Nick Retterer | February 10, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Frightening Footage of an Iceberg Flipping While 2 Experienced Climbers Are On It View this post on Instagram Oops, should not have eaten breakfast 🍳 before climbing. @fredroux72 we both survived. Not to be repeated. Full story in our YouTube channel. A post shared by Mike Horn (@mikehornexplorer) on Sep 16, 2020 at 2:43am PDT Explorer Mike Horn and a partner got the shock of their lives when the iceberg they […] SnowBrains | September 18, 2020 2 Comments
Iceberg Hauling Could Help the World’s Thirstiest Regions A marine salvage expert is making an innovative (and bit crazy) proposal to tow a giant iceberg to Cape Town, and melting it down to drinking water to offer a solution to the water crisis. The idea is to tow icebergs thousands of miles from Antarctica to regions where water is scarce and could be brought to shore to produce […] Weather Kristen Strom | August 17, 2018 0 Comments
Huge Iceberg Drifts Perilously Close to Tiny Greenland Village | Evacuated Residents Fear Tsunami [arve url="https://youtu.be/Hyv2AXJ3oFo"] Steven Agar | July 16, 2018 13 Likes 1 Tweet 0 Comments
Fishing Boat Saves Arctic Fox Stranded on Iceberg just Hours From Death Alan Russell of St. Lewis said his crab-fishing boat was just over four miles offshore when they spotted something on a nearby iceberg: an arctic fox reports CBC. “We seen something on the ice. Wasn’t sure what it was,” Russell told CBC’s Labrador Morning. “So we got up closer to it. It was a little fox, Arctic fox. And he wasn’t […] SnowBrains | June 29, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Cliff Diving off an Iceberg in Antarctica | Would You Do It? [arve url="https://youtu.be/p0T_38ITnq0"] Steven Agar | May 30, 2018 13 Likes 0 Tweets 0 Comments
Trip Report: Skiing Antarctica With Ice Axe Expeditions 2017 **All photos in this article are from Ice Axe Expeditions’ 2017 Antarctica trip. Powder & Sunshine. Powder & Sunshine are what defined the October/November 2017 Ice Axe Expeditions Antarctica ski trip. Crisp, dry powder skiing isn’t even thought to happen in Antarctica, we know. But in late October 2017, we skied boot deep, dreamy powder on the Antarctic Peninsula. The […] Trip Report Miles Clark | March 8, 2018 1 Comment
VIDEO: Hucking a 30-Footer Off a Greenland Iceberg on an Inflatable Pizza Slice This just looks fun! Ethan Pringle takes a victory lap after a six-week expedition in Greenland. “Our second to last day on the boat, headed back to civilization, we came across this perfect iceberg- a big ole mother with a long, perfectly angled slope that led to a 20 foot drop off. Well, I’m here to tell you folks, pizzas […] SnowBrains | August 14, 2017 0 Comments
Iceberg The Size of Delaware Has Finally Broken Off Of Antarctica | Will Likely Lead to Sea Level Rise Huge Antarctic iceberg finally breaks free by the British Antarctic Survey July 12th, 2017 After months of ‘hanging by a thread’ a vast iceberg the size of Norfolk has finally broken off Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. Around 30 metres of this 190m thick block of ice sits above the sea surface. Scientists now have opportunities to study the stability […] Industry News Guest Author | July 12, 2017 0 Comments
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