The world’s largest iceberg is approaching the island with millions of penguins

The world’s largest iceberg A23a is approaching the island of South Georgia in South Atlantic, threatening to harm the populations of penguins and seals. Iceberg is about 40 meters high, Sky News said Friday, January 24th.

“The world’s largest iceberg is moving towards South Georgia’s British territory, a quarrel can endure millions of penguins and seals,” the report said.

It is expected that iceberg will approach South Georgia in the next two to four weeks.

According to scientists, if the iceberg is stuck in shallow waters near the island, he may hinder the waterways that are essential for penguins, which they use to take food. The Antarctic Service oceanographer of Great Britain, Andrew Meyers, emphasized that it could “increase the death rate in penguins.”

At the same time, an employee of the University of Colorado Ted Scamboos said that although the A23A is “threatening penguins in South Georgia, he has not given a great risk to the penguin population as a whole.”

“The ecosystem of the Southern Ocean is very resistant to these phenomenon. It has evolved under the influence of various icebergs in the hundreds of thousands of years,” Scambox said.

According to the Meyers, over time the A23A, most likely, will be destroyed in smaller icebergs and soluble, as is the standard case.

Keep in mind that by the end of 2023 this iceberg was reported in the first time more than 30 years began to be drifted. Its area is 4000 square kilometers. It is known that in 1986, the A23 departed from the Filkhner-Ronno glacier shelf to western Antarctica, and then stuck under the Vedell’s bottom.

Earlier, scientists from the University of Newkal in the UK said that by the end of the century, nearly half of the 215 thousand glaciers would disappear from the face of the earth. This process endorses the lives of millions of people, and not where it should be earlier.