A robotic glider will be deployed to inspect the remains of iceberg A-68 Alice Marzocchi, NOC
It is a relief when we finally see the iceberg emerging, first as a line on the ship’s radar and then as a wall of ice emerging from a foggy horizon, stretching further than we can see.
This is the remains of iceberg A-68, the third largest iceberg ever recorded, which broke away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in 2017. After drifting northwards, A-68 was on a collision course with the island of South Georgia in December 2020 before being…
