PenguinTracker / Icebergs / A83
Iceberg A83
Tabular iceberg · last fix 08/13/2026
Iceberg A83 covers 190 km² and was last fixed at 60°57'S 50°31'W on 08/13/2026. That makes it the 17th largest of the 33 icebergs the US National Ice Center currently tracks, carrying 1.5% of all tracked berg area.
Area190 km²
Rank by area17th of 33 tracked
Share of tracked ice1.5%
Last fix08/13/2026
Position60°57'S 50°31'W
Decimal-60.950, -50.520
Distance to pole3,230 km
Treaty areainside 60°S
How it got its name
The letter records the quadrant the berg was first sighted in — A is 0–90°W, the Bellingshausen and Weddell seas — and the number is issued in sequence. A trailing letter marks a fragment that broke off a parent berg, so this one has not been logged as a fragment.
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Nearest stations
A83 at its last fix. Rings are 60°, 70° and 80°S.
Within 408 km. Blue dots are other tracked bergs, orange are stations.
Positions are refixed weekly. Drift tracks appear here once the archive has more than one week of fixes for this berg.