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At a thousand feet above the iceberg of the world, it is difficult to believe what you see.

It extends to the horizon – a white field in search of the eye.

Its edge seems slim in comparison, until you make a flying bird next to it and you realize that it is, in fact, an ice cliff hundreds of feet high.

Scientists who used satellites to follow the meander of the iceberg decades north of Antarctica appointed the iceberg A23A.

But closely, the figures and the letters do not do him justice.

It is an apparently endless slab, fringed by an acute-marine glow-the ocean with its backlit base by a reflective ice threshold below.

Monotonous but beautiful; We fly along the coast of an ice nation.

And it is also difficult to believe that you see it at all.

Where it has failed – 80 kilometers from the small island of South Georgia – seems incredibly distant.

We are 800 miles from the Falkland Islands and 900 miles from the glazed waste from Antarctica.

Without a track on the southern Georgia, there is only one plane flying here.

Once a month about a Royal Air Force A400 transport aircraft based in Falklands performs the Cold Stare operation – a flight of maritime surveillance and application on British territory abroad which includes the neighboring sandwich islands.

It is a fluid flight, although noisy of two hours towards southern Georgia.

But as the dramatic peaks of the island appear, the journey – for us, at least inexperienced passengers – becomes frightening.

Gusts on the mountains and steep land throws the plane and its occupants around.

Not that this prevents pilots from finishing their island circuit.

We fly on some of its 500,000 square miles from the marine protected area designed to protect the largest concentration of marine mammals and birds on the planet on southern Georgia.

It is only then that we head towards the iceberg, and even if it is only a few minutes of theft of the Southern Georgia, it is first of all difficult to see. It is so large and white that it is not distinguished from the horizon through the mist.

Until suddenly, its edge appears.

It is immediately obvious that the A23A is not too long for this world. Large icebergs hundreds of meters in diameter have already broken and approach the Southern Georgia.

Throughout its edges, the cracks appear and the arches with its basic caves are eroded by the warmer ocean here, undermining the ice, weakening it more.

The iceberg could present a problem for some of the penguins, seals and sea birds in southern Georgia. A jumble of quickly fragmenting ice could suffocate certain bays and beaches in which the colonies of the animals reproduce.

The billions of tonnes of fresh water that melt from the iceberg could also interfere with the food networks that support marine life.

However, the breeding season is coming to an end and the icebergs are also known to fertilize the oceans with sediments transported from the Antarctic continent.

Find out more:
The Megaberg: larger than London and five times the weight of Mt Everest
The waters were once red with whale blood – now this island is a success of conservation

The impact on shipping is more relevant. There are not many here. But fishing ships, cruise ships and research teams exercise these waters and small pieces of ice called “grunts” are a regular risk.

A23A will create a lot.

There are too few icebergs that are too few for scientists to know whether they become more frequent or not.

But they are symptomatic of a clearly emerging trend. As our climate warms up, the Antarctica melts slowly.

It loses approximately 150 billion tonnes of ice per year – half of it breaking the continent in the form of iceberg shift from glaciers, the rest melting directly from its vast glacial calculations as temperatures increase gradually.

The pace of the disintegration of A23A is good, much faster. He will have disappeared for months, not millennia.

But looking at his edges collapse and slip into the South Atlantic, you cannot help but see him as the fate of an entire miniature continent.

At a thousand feet above the iceberg of the world, it is difficult to believe what you see.

It extends to the horizon – a white field in search of the eye.

Its edge seems slim in comparison, until you make a flying bird next to it and you realize that it is, in fact, an ice cliff hundreds of feet high.

Scientists who used satellites to follow the meander of the iceberg decades north of Antarctica appointed the iceberg A23A.

But closely, the figures and the letters do not do him justice.

It is an apparently endless slab, fringed by an acute-marine glow-the ocean with its backlit base by a reflective ice threshold below.

Monotonous but beautiful; We fly along the coast of an ice nation.

And it is also difficult to believe that you see it at all.

Where it has failed – 80 kilometers from the small island of South Georgia – seems incredibly distant.

We are 800 miles from the Falkland Islands and 900 miles from the glazed waste from Antarctica.

Without a track on the southern Georgia, there is only one plane flying here.

Once a month about a Royal Air Force A400 transport aircraft based in Falklands performs the Cold Stare operation – a flight of maritime surveillance and application on British territory abroad which includes the neighboring sandwich islands.

It is a fluid flight, although noisy of two hours towards southern Georgia.

But as the dramatic peaks of the island appear, the journey – for us, at least inexperienced passengers – becomes frightening.

Gusts on the mountains and steep land throws the plane and its occupants around.

Not that this prevents pilots from finishing their island circuit.

We fly on some of its 500,000 square miles from the marine protected area designed to protect the largest concentration of marine mammals and birds on the planet on southern Georgia.

It is only then that we head towards the iceberg, and even if it is only a few minutes of theft of the Southern Georgia, it is first of all difficult to see. It is so large and white that it is not distinguished from the horizon through the mist.

Until suddenly, its edge appears.

It is immediately obvious that the A23A is not too long for this world. Large icebergs hundreds of meters in diameter have already broken and approach the Southern Georgia.

Throughout its edges, the cracks appear and the arches with its basic caves are eroded by the warmer ocean here, undermining the ice, weakening it more.

The iceberg could present a problem for some of the penguins, seals and sea birds in southern Georgia. A jumble of quickly fragmenting ice could suffocate certain bays and beaches in which the colonies of the animals reproduce.

The billions of tonnes of fresh water that melt from the iceberg could also interfere with the food networks that support marine life.

However, the breeding season is coming to an end and the icebergs are also known to fertilize the oceans with sediments transported from the Antarctic continent.

Find out more:
The Megaberg: larger than London and five times the weight of Mt Everest
The waters were once red with whale blood – now this island is a success of conservation

The impact on shipping is more relevant. There are not many here. But fishing ships, cruise ships and research teams exercise these waters and small pieces of ice called “grunts” are a regular risk.

A23A will create a lot.

There are too few icebergs that are too few for scientists to know whether they become more frequent or not.

But they are symptomatic of a clearly emerging trend. As our climate warms up, the Antarctica melts slowly.

It loses approximately 150 billion tonnes of ice per year – half of it breaking the continent in the form of iceberg shift from glaciers, the rest melting directly from its vast glacial calculations as temperatures increase gradually.

The pace of the disintegration of A23A is good, much faster. He will have disappeared for months, not millennia.

But looking at his edges collapse and slip into the South Atlantic, you cannot help but see him as the fate of an entire miniature continent.

At a thousand feet above the iceberg of the world, it is difficult to believe what you see.

It extends to the horizon – a white field in search of the eye.

Its edge seems slim in comparison, until you make a flying bird next to it and you realize that it is, in fact, an ice cliff hundreds of feet high.

Scientists who used satellites to follow the meander of the iceberg decades north of Antarctica appointed the iceberg A23A.

But closely, the figures and the letters do not do him justice.

It is an apparently endless slab, fringed by an acute-marine glow-the ocean with its backlit base by a reflective ice threshold below.

Monotonous but beautiful; We fly along the coast of an ice nation.

And it is also difficult to believe that you see it at all.

Where it has failed – 80 kilometers from the small island of South Georgia – seems incredibly distant.

We are 800 miles from the Falkland Islands and 900 miles from the glazed waste from Antarctica.

Without a track on the southern Georgia, there is only one plane flying here.

Once a month about a Royal Air Force A400 transport aircraft based in Falklands performs the Cold Stare operation – a flight of maritime surveillance and application on British territory abroad which includes the neighboring sandwich islands.

It is a fluid flight, although noisy of two hours towards southern Georgia.

But as the dramatic peaks of the island appear, the journey – for us, at least inexperienced passengers – becomes frightening.

Gusts on the mountains and steep land throws the plane and its occupants around.

Not that this prevents pilots from finishing their island circuit.

We fly on some of its 500,000 square miles from the marine protected area designed to protect the largest concentration of marine mammals and birds on the planet on southern Georgia.

It is only then that we head towards the iceberg, and even if it is only a few minutes of theft of the Southern Georgia, it is first of all difficult to see. It is so large and white that it is not distinguished from the horizon through the mist.

Until suddenly, its edge appears.

It is immediately obvious that the A23A is not too long for this world. Large icebergs hundreds of meters in diameter have already broken and approach the Southern Georgia.

Throughout its edges, the cracks appear and the arches with its basic caves are eroded by the warmer ocean here, undermining the ice, weakening it more.

The iceberg could present a problem for some of the penguins, seals and sea birds in southern Georgia. A jumble of quickly fragmenting ice could suffocate certain bays and beaches in which the colonies of the animals reproduce.

The billions of tonnes of fresh water that melt from the iceberg could also interfere with the food networks that support marine life.

However, the breeding season is coming to an end and the icebergs are also known to fertilize the oceans with sediments transported from the Antarctic continent.

Find out more:
The Megaberg: larger than London and five times the weight of Mt Everest
The waters were once red with whale blood – now this island is a success of conservation

The impact on shipping is more relevant. There are not many here. But fishing ships, cruise ships and research teams exercise these waters and small pieces of ice called “grunts” are a regular risk.

A23A will create a lot.

There are too few icebergs that are too few for scientists to know whether they become more frequent or not.

But they are symptomatic of a clearly emerging trend. As our climate warms up, the Antarctica melts slowly.

It loses approximately 150 billion tonnes of ice per year – half of it breaking the continent in the form of iceberg shift from glaciers, the rest melting directly from its vast glacial calculations as temperatures increase gradually.

The pace of the disintegration of A23A is good, much faster. He will have disappeared for months, not millennia.

But looking at his edges collapse and slip into the South Atlantic, you cannot help but see him as the fate of an entire miniature continent.