"The largest iceberg on the planet A23a, which broke off from the Antarctic glacier 38 years ago, got into an ocean vortex in the Skosha Sea and stopped again. Having broken off in 1986, the ice giant, three times the size of St. Petersburg, was stranded in the Weddell Sea for 30 years. In the spring of last year, it suddenly began drifting along the shores of the Antarctic Peninsula in the direction of the Skosha Sea," the report says.

It is specified that the area of the iceberg is 4,366 square kilometers. The iceberg is slowly rotating, the Antarctic Circumpolar current (ACT) has a significant impact on it, which will eventually destroy it, reports TASS.

"The underwater part of the iceberg continues to be actively affected by the warm waters of the AZT, therefore, with a high degree of probability, the A23a will still collapse, after which its parts will continue their way into the Skosha Sea. But due to the size of the iceberg, it may take a lot of time," the press service quoted Sergei Kashin, a researcher at the Department of Oceanology of the AANI, as saying.