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As horrible as this could potentially be for the flora and fauna of South Georgia Island, I hope we record the collision in high fidelity and use it as a teaching tool.

I bet most people have never conceived of a mass of ice this size colliding with anything. Watching it unfold should be captivating and unsettling.

As bad as this is, there's probably more to come.

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It would be spectacularly boring. The ice would just slowly run aground and stop. The reason it’s so damaging is because it just parked on the entire shallow ecosystem, not because it’s gonna blast into the island like an asteroid.

> not because it’s gonna blast into the island like an asteroid

More like a really slow, flat comet!

A spectacular high impact collision unlikely. The "disaster" is that the iceberg grounds in shallower waters around the Islands blocking the fauna from being able to hunt for food.

And slowly milling the marine shelf fixed life to flour, whilst dramatically lowering salinity.

Multiple mechanisms.

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