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Also in this very bespoke audience have been researchers at bases in Bird Island and South Georgia.

Ecologist Mark Belchier who advises the South Georgia government said: "If it breaks up, the resulting icebergs are likely to present a hazard to vessels as they move in the local currents and could restrict vessels' access to local fishing grounds."

The world's largest iceberg has run aground in shallow waters off the remote British island of South Georgia, home to millions of penguins and seals.

But experts now think that most of South Georgia's birds and animals will escape that fate.

Countless birds and seals died on South Georgia's icy coves and beaches when past giant icebergs stopped them feeding.