The Scottish government has officially granted offshore consent to the 2GW West of Orkney wind farm, 30km west of Orkney mainland.

In December last year, A23a escaped from an ocean current vortex that had trapped it just to the north of the South Orkney Islands for months, rotating anticlockwise more or less on the spot at a ...

Newly released satellite footage shows the world’s largest iceberg running aground near a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean last month. Slightly smaller than Rhode Island, A23a ...

The colossal iceberg A23a, seen here in 2023, appears to have run aground on the continental shelf surrounding South Georgia, a remote British territory home to an abundance of wildlife. (T.

In 2023, it left Antarctic waters and started traveling north. Then this spring it started spinning, becoming trapped in an ocean current near the South Orkney Islands.

After months on the move, the world's largest iceberg, A23a, has run aground off the remote British island of South Georgia, representatives from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reported on ...

A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square miles.

Estimated to weigh roughly a trillion tons, A23a had broken away, or calved, from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986 and then stayed atop the seabed in the Weddell Sea within the Southern ...

The world’s largest iceberg, known as A23a, center, ran aground off the coast of the island of South Georgia, marked in red, last week. NASA ...

It calved from Antarctica in 1986, making it the world’s oldest berg. And now, after drifting for half a decade, A23a has grounded itself about 56 miles (90 kilometers) south of South Georgia.

However, scientists studying South Orkney, an island in this region, uncovered a mystery: evidence of icebergs that existed 3 million years before Antarctica’s large ice cap even formed. In 2017, ...