Once the World’s Largest Iceberg, A68a Is Now a Shattered Mess
The latest satellite imagery suggests iceberg A68a is in its death throes, as the once-colossal iceberg has deteriorated rapidly over the past week. In its prime, A68a, which detached itself from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in 2017, measured 2,240-square-miles (5,800 square kilometers) in size, becoming one of the biggest icebergs ever recorded. At the…