The West Ice Shelf is a prominent ice shelf extending about 350 km (220 mi) in an east–west direction along the Leopold and Astrid Coast in East Antarctica between Barrier Bay and Posadowsky Bay, and up to 120 km northwards from the continental margin.[1]
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An iceshelf is a large platform of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by one or multiple tributary glaciers. Ice shelves form along coastlines where...
The Ross IceShelf is the largest iceshelf of Antarctica (as of 2013[update], an area of roughly 500,809 square kilometres (193,363 sq mi) and about 800...
glacial geologist and geomorphologist. The Thwaites IceShelf is one of the biggest ice shelves in West Antarctica, though it is highly unstable and disintegrating...
The Getz IceShelf (74°15′S 125°00′W / 74.250°S 125.000°W / -74.250; -125.000 (Getz IceShelf)) is an iceshelf over 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi)...
The Brunt IceShelf borders the Antarctic coast of Coats Land between Dawson-Lambton Glacier and Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue. It was named by the UK...
Gazetteer. The iceshelf areas are listed below, clockwise, starting in the west of East Antarctica: † Indicates that the iceshelf has collapsed. List...
Milne IceShelf, a fragment of the former Ellesmere IceShelf, is located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is the second largest iceshelf in...
Shackleton IceShelf Shackleton IceShelf is an extensive iceshelf fronting the coast of East Antarctica from 95° E to 105° E. It extends for an along-shore...
Dotson IceShelf is an iceshelf about 30 miles (50 km) wide between Martin Peninsula and Bear Peninsula on the coast of Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica...
The Amery IceShelf (69°45′S 71°0′E / 69.750°S 71.000°E / -69.750; 71.000) is a broad iceshelf in Antarctica at the head of Prydz Bay between the Lars...
Antarctic coastal angle formed by the coast and the western end of the WestIceShelf. Charted by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by...
this nickname is controversial among scientists. The Thwaites IceShelf, a floating iceshelf which braces and restrains the eastern portion of Thwaites...
Mountains and is covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. It lies between the Ross Sea (partly covered by the Ross IceShelf), and the Weddell Sea (largely...
marine-based ice sheet, meaning that its bed lies well below sea level and its edges flow into floating ice shelves. The WAIS is bounded by the Ross IceShelf, the...
200 ft, according to other sources) and separates the Ronne IceShelf from the Filchner IceShelf. It is characterized by two domes, Reinwarthhöhe in the...
glacier behind them, while an absence of an iceshelf becomes destabilizing. For instance, when Larsen B iceshelf in the Antarctic Peninsula had collapsed...
The Ayles IceShelf was one of six major ice shelves in Canada, all on the north coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. The iceshelf broke off from the coast...
The Ward Hunt IceShelf is the largest iceshelf in the Arctic, located near Ward Hunt Island, on the north coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada...
is an open embayment in the vicinity of Gaussberg, just east of the WestIceShelf. Discovered in February 1902 by German Antarctic Expedition under Erich...
IceShelf The Alfred Ernest IceShelf is an iceshelf on the north-west part of Ellesmere Island, Canada. This ice mass is one of four remaining ice shelves...
An iceshelf basal channel is a type of subglacial meltwater channel that forms on the underside of floating ice shelves connected to ice sheets. Basal...
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves...
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