One of the World’s Biggest Icebergs Is on a Collision Course With an Island

The 1,815-square-mile iceberg is larger than South Georgia itself, and is on course to hit the island’s shores and seriously disrupt the area’s ecosystem. Professor Geraint Tarling, senior biological oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey, told CNN that the iceberg collision could be extremely detrimental to the island’s wildlife population, especially seals and penguins as they would not be able to access their usual feeding grounds.

The iceberg is currently less than 300 miles away from South Georgia Island and is moving 0.62 miles per hour.