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This iceberg is "not something that is necessarily human-made, a climate problem -- it's not that," says Siegert. "There's loads of icebergs calving all the time."
西格特說，這座冰山“不一定是人為造成的，不是氣候問題，并非如此。一直都有大量冰山在崩裂”。
But it helps to shine a spotlight on climate issues the region is struggling with.
但它有助于聚焦該地區正在面臨的氣候問題。
"Antarctica is experiencing mass loss to global warming and burning fossil fuels," he says.
他說：“南極洲正因全球變暖和化石燃料燃燒而經歷大規模冰量流失。”
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctic are losing ice six times more quickly than they were 30 years ago.
格陵蘭島和南極洲的冰蓋流失速度比30年前快了六倍。
"There's been an acceleration in the loss of the number of icebergs," says Meijers. "Big 'berg calvings are important, but a lot of it happens in much smaller chunks."
邁耶斯說：“冰山數量的減少一直在加速。大冰山的崩裂很重要，但很多時候是以小得多的冰塊形式發生的。”
It doesn't take much to change these vulnerable ecosystems, and Siegert is concerned about the consequences of Antarctica's ice loss.
改變這些脆弱的生態系統并不需要太多因素，西格特擔心南極洲冰量流失的后果。
"This is a fragile environment," he says.
他說：“這是一個脆弱的環境。”
Melting Antarctic ice sheets have a global ripple effect.
南極冰蓋融化會產生全球性的連鎖反應。
The Southern Ocean helps to regulate the world's climate by absorbing both heat and carbon, but warming waters make this harder. The melting also causes sea level rise.
南大洋通過吸收熱量和碳來幫助調節全球氣候，但海水變暖使這一過程變得更加困難。融化還會導致海平面上升。
"There's two meters of sea level rise locked in," says Meijers. "There's nothing we can really do about that."
邁耶斯說：“已經鎖定了兩米的海平面上升。對此我們實際上無能為力。”
For South Georgia, one thing's certain.
對于南喬治亞島來說，有一點是肯定的。
"It's definitely going to shake things up," says Vernet, "but it's too early to tell whether it will be positive or negative for the ecosystem."
韋爾內說：“這肯定會引發一些變化，但現在判斷它對生態系統是積極還是消極影響還為時過早。”
Says Siegert: "from quite a cold, objective scientific perspective, it's actually quite an interesting phenomenon."
西格特說：“從相當冷靜、客觀的科學角度來看，這實際上是一個相當有趣的現象。”
