JAKARTA - Climate change is increasingly showing itself with new evidence of giant icebergs moving around and now floating directionlessly.
The iceberg recorded the A-76A, which measures about twice in London, has now been swept into warmer equatorial waters.
Last October, the incident was caught by NASA's Terra satellite where the A-76A was floating on the Drake Passage. The region is the water body between Cape Horn South America, Chile, and Antarctica's South Shetland Islands.
The A-76A is the remaining part of what used to be the largest iceberg. The iceberg parent, A-76A, is the A-76 split from Antarctica's Beting Es Ronne in May 2021.
At the time, A-76 was the largest iceberg on the planet. Within a month, the iceberg had lost its status when it broke into three parts.
The largest of the pieces is the A-76A, which is now nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) away on Drake Passage.
"It remains to be seen where the A-76A will float next. It is already more than 500 kilometers north of its position in July 2022, when the European Space Agency's velocating satellite-1 shows the mountain passing through the Antarctic Peninsula," NASA said, quoted by Metro, Monday, November 14.
"As they continue to drift north, icebergs are usually pushed east by the strong Antarctic Circuit Current flowing through the Drake Strait."
Since then, the iceberg has often slid north towards the equator and quickly melted in warmer waters in the area. Despite the long journey, the size of the iceberg remains unchanged.
In June 2021, the US National Ice Center (USNIC) reported that the A-76A measures 135 kilometers long and 26 kilometers wide, the total area is the same as about twice the size of London.
Meanwhile, in October 2022, USNIC reported that the iceberg still maintains the same dimension. The iceberg was captured in a natural color image, obtained on October 31, 2022, with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.
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