THE WORLD'S LARGEST ICEBERG

THE WORLD'S LARGEST ICEBERG The world's largest iceberg is "rapidly disintegrating" into several "very large pieces," scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said. Previously weighing nearly 1.1 trillion tons and covering an area of ​​3,672 square kilometers—slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island—iceberg A23a has been closely monitored by scientists since it broke off from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986. A23a has held the title of "largest current iceberg" several times since the 1980s, occasionally being surpassed by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, including A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021.