The icebergs in the group appear to be drifting apart. The main A-68A iceberg now measures only around 37 miles (60 km) in length, with a maximum width of about 14 miles (22 km). The newest satellite images reveal that the once colossal iceberg has now broken into multiple pieces. By the end of 2020, a large piece of the iceberg had broken off, and more large cracks were spotted in the berg at the end of January 2021. Remember giant iceberg A-68A? Last fall (November 2020), the colossal Antarctic berg – the world’s largest – was on a collision course with South Georgia Island, a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The smaller slab, promptly named A-68G by the US National Ice Center, measures approximately 28 miles (45 km) in length and around 11 miles (18 km) at its widest point.Image via ESA. Satellite images from the end of January 2021 showed that a new iceberg calved from A-68A. | Here’s a look at A-68A on February 1, 2021.
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