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A huge iceberg is on a collision course with the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. The iceberg A68a could endanger animal life there, as the European space agency @esa announced.
A huge iceberg is on a collision course with the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. The iceberg A68a could endanger animal life there, as the European space agency @esa announced.
The colossus could therefore run aground for up to ten years in front of the island, which, with an area of ​​around 3500 square kilometers, is about the same size as it. This could hinder penguins and seals from foraging and destroy life on the ocean floor.
A68a was reportedly last 350 kilometers from South Georgia. There is still hope that ocean currents will push him past the island. Millions of penguins live on the island 1400 kilometers east of the Argentine coast. In 2004, another iceberg ran aground off the island.
