The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

If the latter occurs, Meijers warned it could severely disrupt feeding and breeding for seals and penguins on the island.

A23a, a massive iceberg nearly the size of Rhode Island, towering at 40 meters, is on a collision course with South Georgia.

Meijers said this scenario could seriously impede seals and penguins trying to feed and raise their young on the island.

If it gets stuck near South Georgia Island, that could make it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young ...

The island hosts 1.3 million pairs of Chinstrap ... there in the past and that has caused significant mortality to penguin chicks and seal pups," he said. Roughly 1,550 square miles across ...

Meijers warned that icebergs have previously grounded near the island, causing significant mortality among penguin chicks and seal pups, particularly when their feeding grounds were cut off by the ...

"The island acts as an obstacle for ocean currents ... which causes increased mortality." The seal and penguin populations on South Georgia have already been having a "bad season" with an outbreak ...