The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with the British territory of South Georgia - potentially putting millions of penguins and seals in danger.
The trillion-tonne slab of ice, named A23a, broke free from its position last month and started drifting northwards.
The “megaberg” - which is twice the size of Greater London and 130 feet tall - is expected to approach the remote island off Antarctica in the next two to four weeks.
This sounds like a mechanical engineering test question.
D) All of the above
130 feet tall with 9/10 underwater means about 400 meters thich. Nice. Also :
“The whole ecosystem in the Southern Ocean is very resilient to these events,” he wrote. “It has evolved with these icebergs being a factor for hundreds of thousands of years.”
It’s also going to take several years to melt to the point that it’s no longer a danger to shipping. And as it melts, it will break up into more and more chunks.
If it gets near shipping lanes it will disrupt commerce for years.
