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by Hondor 3452 days ago
How far could it float away? Any chance of crashing into South America?
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Unlikely, it's hard for these things to get close to the coast - remember that the base is several hundred meters below sea level, so it will ground if it gets into even remotely shallow water. More likely it'll break up, and bits will wander off into the South Atlantic and Indian oceans.
There are quite a few inhabited islands spread between south America and southern Africa.

They're mostly old volcanoes some are still active but so pointy there wouldn't be much for a berg to catch on until it was right on top of them.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/British_...