{"id":679,"date":"2023-12-02T08:36:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T07:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=679"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:05:13","slug":"worlds-largest-iceberg-moves-towards-the-open-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/worlds-largest-iceberg-moves-towards-the-open-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s Largest Iceberg Moves Towards The Open Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The largest iceberg in the world, A-23a, has started moving into the open ocean. In the 1980s, large areas of ice broke off from West Antarctica. While other icebergs were much smaller, A-23a was the largest in size<\/strong>. However, it was stuck <\/strong>on the ocean floor for more than 30 years. Some months ago, A-23a broke free and due to<\/strong> strong winds and ocean currents <\/strong>started drifting <\/strong>into the South Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gigantic iceberg is about 44 miles long and 30 miles wide , about three times the size of New York City. Its ice is up to 400 metres thick and weighs over a trillion <\/strong>tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past, there were several  research station<\/strong>s in the area, including a Soviet <\/strong>station that was evacuated <\/strong>in the 1980s when the iceberg broke off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally, icebergs that break off Antarctica move north towards South Georgia or the Falkland Islands. Many of them melt before reaching these areas. Scientists <\/strong>expect A-23a to go much further because of its sheer <\/strong>size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it does reach South George it may pose <\/strong>a threat to wildlife there, and endanger the breeding places<\/strong> of penguins, seals <\/strong>and seabirds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iceberg off the coast of Antarctica<\/strong>
Image:<\/em> Andrew Shiva \/ Wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • breeding place<\/strong> = areas where animals reproduce and have babies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • current <\/strong>= the movement of water in the ocean or the sea<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • drift <\/strong>= float<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • due to<\/strong> = because of<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • endanger <\/strong>= put something in danger<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • evacuate <\/strong>= leave because something has become too dangerous<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • pose <\/strong>= be<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • research station<\/strong> = a place where scientists carry out experiments<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • scientist <\/strong>= person who is trained in science and works in a lab<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • seal <\/strong>= large animal that eats fish and lives near the coast<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • several <\/strong>= a few<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • sheer <\/strong>= unbelievable<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • size <\/strong>= how big something is<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Soviet <\/strong>= Soviet Union = the country that existed before Russia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • stuck <\/strong>= if something cannot move<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • trillion <\/strong>= 1,000,000,000,000,000 = a number with 12 zeros<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The largest iceberg in the world, A-23a, has started moving into the open ocean. In the 1980s, large areas of ice broke off from West Antarctica. While other icebergs were much smaller, A-23a was the largest in size. However, it was stuck on the ocean floor for more than 30 years. Some months ago, A-23a broke free and due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[134,19,135],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science","tag-antarctica","tag-environment","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}