The world’s largest iceberg -three sizes of New York City may float on a remote island, which warns scientists to confuse baby penguins and seals.
The huge ice wall is moving Slowly from Antarctica About potential collision courses with South Georgia Breeding areas of important wildlife In the South Atlantic Ocean.
The satellite image, unlike the previous “Megabalg”, suggested that this fraud was not broken into a small lump when running through the southern sea, Andrew.・ Majers said on Friday.
He stated that it was difficult to predict the accurate course, but the general flow suggested that the giant would reach shallow continental shelves around Souggogia in 2-4 weeks.
But he said that it would be the next guess.
Avoid shelves and may be transported outdoors across Southern Georgia, an overseas territory of the UK, about 870 miles of the Falkland Islands.
Alternatively, hitting the sloping bottom, you may be able to stand up for several months or break it finely.
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Meijers stated that the scenario could seriously hinder the seals and penguins that are nurturing and raising young people on the island. The island has a 1.3 million pair of 1.3 million pairs, one of the largest colonies in the world, hosts about 5 million seals and 65 million breeding birds.
“The iceberg has been grounded there in the past, causing a penguin chicken and a sealed puppy,” he said.
Approximately 1,550 square miles were Cal from Antarctica shelves in 1986, opposite the world’s largest and oldest iceberg, known as A23A. Before the delivery in 1986, the giant iceberg held a Soviet research station. Falley
Before it was finally broken in 2020, he was stuck for more than 30 years. The wood journey was sometimes spinning by the Navy. In 2023, a survey of the British Antarctica was posted Time lapse of satellite imageShows the movement of the iceberg.
“GAME OF THRONES-SQUE” Iceberg
In the latter half of 2023, Migeras faced the iceberg while leading scientific missions explained that “it will spread from a huge white cliff, a huge white cliff of 40 or 50 meters, from the horizon.”
“It’s like a white wall. It’s actually like a game of thrones,” he said and mentioned the dark fantasy series.
A23A traced almost the same route as the previous giant iceberg and passed through the Wedel Sea on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula along the route called “Ice Burg Alley”. This is the flow of water used in 1916 to escape from the EXPRALLELE Shacklton, a famous Explorer, to escape from Antarctica after losing durability. Legend A wrecked ship was found In 2022 off the coast of Antarctica.
The weight of the freshwater, which is a little below, was whipped by the world’s most powerful sea, “Jet Stream”, that is, the pole water current in the Antarctica.
Laul Cordero, a member of the Santiago University University, a member of the National Antarctic Research Committee, said he was convinced that the iceberg would avoid South Georgia.
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“Because the island functions as a disability of the sea current, it usually distracts water long before reaching the island,” he said.
“The iceberg is not very likely to hit because the water is moved by the flow of the water,” he said.
Another scientist and glaciologist SOLEDAD TIRANTI is currently on the exploration voyage of Argentina in Antarctica, but the icebergs such as A23A are so deep that they fall into the sea before arriving on the island or the mainland.
In the summer of southern Georgia, the penguins and seals of residents along the southern coast are feeding in a frozen sea and taking food to grow young people.
“If the ice mountain park is there, it will be physically block where they feed it, or they will have to avoid it,” said Migerers.
“Because it burns a huge amount of extra energy for them, it has a low energy for puppies and chicks, causing an increase in mortality.”
The group of seals and penguins in South Georgia has already had a “bad season” with bird flu, and (iceberg) will significantly worsen it, “he said.
Since A23A has finally melted, water is sowed with nutrients that promotes the growth of plant plankton, feeding whales and other species, and scientists absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. You can.
The iceberg is a natural phenomenon, but the Majers stated that the ratio lost from Antarctica has increased due to climate change induced by humans.
January 2023, the giant part of Brant Ice Shelf in Antarctica About the size of two cities in New York -It broken. Brandt Ice Shelf crosses the Wedel Sea from the site of the Antarctic Peninsula Larsen C Ice Shelf. 2022, Larsen C Ice Shelf -This is the size of New York City and has been considered stable for a long time- I fell to the sea。
