PenguinTracker / Icebergs / B22A
Iceberg B22A
Tabular iceberg · last fix 08/13/2026
Iceberg B22A covers 1,423 km² and was last fixed at 69°01'S 171°47'E on 08/13/2026. That makes it the 2nd largest of the 33 icebergs the US National Ice Center currently tracks, carrying 11.5% of all tracked berg area.
Area1,423 km²
Rank by area2nd of 33 tracked
Share of tracked ice11.5%
Last fix08/13/2026
Position69°01'S 171°47'E
Decimal-69.020, 171.780
Distance to pole2,333 km
Treaty areainside 60°S
How it got its name
The letter records the quadrant the berg was first sighted in — B is 90°W–180°, the Amundsen and eastern Ross seas — and the number is issued in sequence. A trailing letter marks a fragment that broke off a parent berg, so B22A came off B22.
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Nearest stations
B22A at its last fix. Rings are 60°, 70° and 80°S.
Within 878 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.