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Sascha Pare

40-year-old 'queen of icebergs' A23a is no longer world's biggest after losing several 'very large chunks' since May

A large chunk breaks off the iceberg dubbed A23a and we see it falling into the ocean.

An iceberg that was once the size of Rhode Island and the biggest in the world has lost about 80% of its mass since May, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) report.

Known as A23a, the "megaberg" has been rapidly disintegrating since becoming trapped in a current flowing counterclockwise around South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, Andrew Meijers, a polar oceanographer with the BAS, told CNN.

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