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The world’s largest iceberg which had been drifting north from Antarctica since 2020 has stalled out in an ocean vortex where it is spinning 15° rotation per day.
A23a mega iceberg is approximately 1,500 square miles, about 1,300 feet thick, and weighs somewhere around 1 trillion tons. It first broke off the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf back in 1986 but remained grounded until 2020. By November 2023, A23a had started to drift beyond Antarctic water .
According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) the iceberg is now stuck in a vortex about 375 miles northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula where it slowly spins over a rotating cylinder of water called a Taylor Column .
It can not be predicted how long this pause in the massive icebergs journey north will last but for now its just counter clockwise completing a full rotation every 24 days.
