1,800 square kilometers of the world's largest ice mountain disappeared in 3 years
Images taken by a transport plane belonging to the British Ministry of Defense showed that the world's largest ice mountain has melted 1,800 square kilometers in the last 3 years.
Images taken by a transport plane showed numerous cracks in the Ice Mountain and tunnels running underwater. The iceberg is currently moving towards South Georgia Island in the British Overseas Territory, it said, located 200 kilometers from the island and there is a possibility of being trapped in shallow coastal waters.1,800 SQUARE
KILOMETERS OF THE ICEBERG HAVE DISAPPEARED
In the news, satellite images obtained in recent weeks showed that the edges of the A68a were rapidly falling apart by hard wave movements, and these parts that separated from the iceberg should be monitored for the safety of "sea transport".When the A68a Ice Mountain broke from the ice sheet in Antarctica in 2017, its size was 6000 square kilometers, the latest images obtained showed that it had fallen to 4200 square kilometers.
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