This is a list of Antarctic ice shelves. Ice shelves are attached to a large portion of the Antarctic coastline. Their total area is 1,541,700 km2. Names...
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An ice shelf is a large platform of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by one or multiple tributary glaciers. Ice shelves form along coastlines where...
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continental ice sheets extend from the continent forming massive ice shelves. A list of Antarctic ice shelves can be found at List of Antarctic ice shelves. A...
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B-17B List of Antarctic ice shelves Nimrod Expedition Retreat of glaciers since 1850 Ross Embayment Ross Gyre Steershead Crevasses West Antarctic Rift...
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and many of them have "glacier" in their name, e.g. Pine Island Glacier. Ice shelves are listed separately in the List of Antarctic ice shelves. For the...
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lakes of liquid water also occur (e.g., Lake Vostok). Ice shelves and rises populate the ice sheet on the periphery. The present Antarctic ice sheet accounts...
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The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square...
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The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape...
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to the Antarctic Treaty System). List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands List of Antarctic ice shelves List of Antarctic ice streams List of glaciers...
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Antarctic Convergence. The Antarctic region includes the ice shelves, waters, and all the island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the...
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