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A-68A iceberg nearing South Georgia in November 2020. The iceberg recently broke into two pieces.
A strong undercurrent caused the iceberg to turn as it approached the western shelf edge of the island this week. The strong underwater currents caused it to turn, the biological oceanographer Geraint said. Tarling described the incident as like applying a handbrake for the iceberg because the currents were strong.
The 180 degrees turn was so intense that it broke into two pieces, around 31 miles from the west coast of the island. 
The European Space Science believe that the iceberg fractured might be due to a crash into the shallow seabed. When the iceberg spun, one of its ends moved into shallow water, In that region, ESA estimates that the seafloor is around 200 meters deep, shallow enough for the bottom of the iceberg to scrape against the bottom. ....

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