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“What happens in Antarctica doesn't stay,” UN warns as world’s largest iceberg starts shifting

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After three decades of sitting idle, the world's largest iceberg is on the move again.

At almost 4,000 square kilometres — which is roughly three times the size of New York City — the colossal Antarctic iceberg known as A23a could be (slowly) making its way into the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, towards the Southern Ocean.

"This iceberg is one of the oldest icebergs in Antarctica.… It broke off the ice shelf in 1986 and then it remained grounded on a high point of the seafloor and it stayed there for about 30 years since the mid-'80s,” Antarctic survey glaciologist Oliver Marsh said on Friday.

Despite the extremely rare occurrence, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the world is facing catastrophe as ice caps in the Antarctic continue to melt.

“What happens in Antarctica doesn’t stay in Antarctica. We live in an interconnected world,” the UN official said on Thursday during a trip to the continent.

“Fossil fuel pollution is heating our planet, unleashing climate anarchy in Antarctica. The Southern Ocean has taken the majority of the heat from global warming."

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