Giant berg on collision course with South Georgia

Paris (ESA) Nov 11, 2020

The colossus iceberg that split from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf on 12 July 2017 is on a collision course with South Georgia. Over the last three years, satellite missions such as Copernicus Sentinel-1 have been used to track the berg as it has drifted in the Southern Ocean. For the first two years, it remained close to its parent ice sheet, impeded by sea ice. But now, as the ma