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Date Ship name Deaths 2007 Explorer: 0 1991 Finnpolaris: 0 1977 William Carson: 0 1959 Hans Hedtoft: 95 (all) 1923 Le Raymound: 2+ 1912 Titanic: 1496 1901
The convention signed on 30 January 1914, by the representatives of the world's various maritime powers, provided for the inauguration of an international derelict-destruction, ice observation, and ice patrol service, consisting of vessels, which should patrol the ice regions during the season of iceberg danger and attempt to keep the trans ...
Northern edge of Iceberg B-15A in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, 29 January 2001. Iceberg B-15 was the largest recorded iceberg by area. [Note 1] It measured around 295 by 37 kilometres (159 by 20 nautical miles), with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (3,200 square nautical miles), about the size of the island of Jamaica.
A massive iceberg, identified as A23a, is drifting northeastward and could be on a collision course with the British territory of South Georgia Island. As of mid-January, the iceberg was estimated ...
The world's largest iceberg is on the move after spinning for months in a Taylor Column.
Britain's polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world — a “lucky” encounter that enabled scientists to collect seawater samples around the colossal berg as it ...
Iceberg A23a is a large tabular iceberg which calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. It was stuck on the sea bed for many years but then started moving in 2020. As of January 2025, its area is about 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi), which makes it the current largest iceberg in the world.
The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica toward the island of South Georgia.. The iceberg, called A23a, was previously ...