Exclusive: On board the mission to one of the world's largest icebergs

Alice Marzocchi, NOC
It is a relief when we finally see the iceberg emerging, first as a line on the ship’s radar and then as a wall of ice emerging from a foggy horizon, stretching further than we can see.
This is the remains of iceberg A-68, the third largest iceberg ever recorded, which broke away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in 2017. After drifting northwards, A-68 was on a collision course with the island of South Georgia in December 2020 before being …
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