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  1. Ross Ice Shelf

    File Map antarctica ross ice shelf red x.png thumb 250px Map of Antarctica with the Ross ice shelf marked with a red X. The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica an area of roughly 487 .... Most of Ross Ice Shelf is located within the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand. The ice shelf was named after Captain Sir James Clark Ross who discovered it on 28 January 1841. It was originally ... to 160 W. Exploration File Ross ice shelf.jpg thumb left Crevasse , Ross Ice Shelf in 2001. On January ... to reach the South Pole, the Ross Ice Shelf became a starting area. In a first exploration of the area ... and movement File Ross Ice Shelf 1997.jpg thumb 300px Ross Ice Shelf edge in 1997 Ice shelves are thick ... in Antarctica, March 2002 ref The Ross Ice Shelf is one of many such shelves. It is about the size ..., the ice shelf can be almost 750 m 2,450 ft thick. The Ross Ice Shelf pushes out into the sea at the rate ..., most of the scientific teams have made camps on or adjacent to the Ross Ice Shelf. This includes McMurdo Station . ref name autogenerated5 Clough, John W. and B. Lyle Hansen. The Ross Ice Shelf ... the Ross Ice Shelf, The Geographical Journal , Vol. 130, No. 1 Mar., 1964 , pp. 32 48 ref From 1967 .... ref Nature Times News Service Science report Glaciology Ross ice shelf flow The Times 28 Jan ... endeavor called the Ross Ice Shelf Project was launched with a plan of drilling into the shelf to sample ..., D.H. Eilers and D.R. Gaylord, Glaciological studies on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 1973 1978, in The Ross Ice Shelf Glaciology and Geophysics. Ant. Res. Ser., 42, 21 53. ref The drilling portion ... of iceberg Ice calving calving on the Ross Ice Shelf are, in their opinion, unrelated ... www.theaustralian.news.com.au story 0,20867,20840754 23109,00.html title Ross Ice Shelf could collapse ... of Antarctic ice shelves Nimrod Expedition Ross Gyre References reflist External links Commons Ice shelf ... Photograph of Ross Ice Shelf edge coord 81 30 S 175 00 W scale 20000000 display ...   more details



  1. Beaver Glacier (Ross Ice Shelf)

    Beaver Glacier coord 83 24 S 169 30 E type glacier region AQ source GNIS display inline,title is a glacier , convert 15 mi long, draining the coastal mountains of the Queen Alexandra Range just northwest of Mount Fox Antarctica Mount Fox and entering the Ross Ice Shelf at McCann Point . It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition 1959 60 after the De Havilland Canada DHC 2 Beaver Beaver aircraft City of Auckland , which crashed in this area in January 1960. See also List of glaciers References usgs gazetteer id 1142 name Beaver Glacier Category Glaciers of the Ross Dependency Category Shackleton Coast ShackletonCoast geo stub ...   more details



  1. Ice shelf

    Image Antarctic shelf ice hg.png thumb Processes around an Antarctic ice shelf Image Ross Ice Shelf 1997.jpg thumb Ross Ice Shelf An ice shelf is a thick floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier .... The world s largest ice shelves are the Ross Ice Shelf and the Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The term captured ice shelf has been used for the ice over a subglacial lake , such as Lake Vostok ... in Antarctica , Greenland and Canada . The boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded ... 5 ref That flow continually moves ice from the grounding line to the seaward front of the shelf. The primary ... of ice breaks off from the seaward front of the shelf. Typically, a shelf front will extend forward ... from the lower surface are also important to the mass balance of an ice shelf. Ice may also accrete onto the underside of the shelf. The density contrast between glacial ice, which is denser than ... of 82 N. Ice shelves that are still in existence are the Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf , Milne Ice Shelf , Ward Hunt Ice Shelf and Smith Ice Shelf . The Ayles Ice Shelf broke up in 2005, M Clintock Ice Shelf broke up from 1963 to 1966 and Markham Ice Shelf broke up in 2008. Antarctic ice shelves This section ... tup maanum 01 maantieteellisia tietoja aihepiireittain.xls . Ice shelf disruption Image Glacier ice shelf interactions.svg thumb 250px Glacier ice shelf interactions In the last several decades, glaciologists have observed consistent decreases in ice shelf extent through melt, calving, and complete ... Antarctic ice shelf hanging by thread European scientists . July 10, 2008. Yahoo News . ref The Ellesmere ice shelf reduced by 90 percent in the twentieth century, leaving the separate Alfred Ernest ... Ice Island Calvings and Ice Shelf Changes, Milne Ice Shelf and Ayles Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T. . Arctic 39 1 March 1986 ref The Ayles Ice Shelf calved entirely on August 13, 2005. The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, the largest remaining section of thick 10 m landfast sea ice along the northern ...   more details



  1. Shelf ice

    File Shelf Ice.JPG thumb right 400 px Shelf ice along the southern Lake Michigan Shoreline at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Shelf ice can refer to the ice that forms when a portion of a lake surface ... Shelf ice forms from float ice. Float ice is like drift ice , but seldom becomes large enough to support ... water several miles wide. Structure of shelf ice Shelf ice is a floating mat of ice, but unlike a pond or a small lake that freezes over, the shelf is not a uniform sheet of ice. Created by the wind and waves, the shelf ice is a jumble of ice chunks, pushed onto each other. It is as if you took a pile ... in a ridge. But there is nothing stable in the pile. The individual pieces ice in the case of shelf ... from solar heating and weather variations. Therefore, an ice shelf can vary from a large flat surface ... front, the ice shelf will form a ridge along each sand bar. Citation needed date December 2009 gallery File Shelf Ice beach.jpg Southern Lake Michigan beach in winter at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore File Shelf extending from shore.jpg An unbroken stretch of shelf ice at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore File Shelf Ice ridge.JPG Ridges of shelf ice along Lake Michigan s southern shore at Indiana ... throughout shelf ice, the ice may give way unexpectedly. One can plummet several feet through an air ... the danger. See also Ice sheet dynamics Ice shelf References Winter Warning Signs along the beaches ... Shelf Ice Category Glaciology ... ice. Similar ice will form along the shoreline when the lake is calm. Over time, the ice will build ... often than the larger upper lakes. The wind pushes the float ice and creates waves which also move the ice. Over time, the ice will accumulate on the windward shores of the lake. Like sand, which is moved by the wind and the waves, the ice begins to accumulate along the east and southern shore of Lake Michigan . When pushed onto the beach, it remains and over time, the ice accumulates on top of the beach ...   more details



  1. Prince Gustav Ice Shelf

    Prince Gustav Ice Shelf coord 64 15 S 58 30 W was an ice shelf of more than 15 nautical miles 28 km extent occupying the south part of Prince Gustav Channel , including Rohss Bay , James Ross Island . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place Names Committee UK APC in 1990 in association with the channel. The ice shelf has since retreated and collapsed. ref cite web url http www.antarctica.ac.uk press press releases press release.php?id 376 title Press Release Antarctic ice shelf hangs by a thread date March 25, 2008 work National Environment Research Council publisher British Antarctic Survey accessdate 2009 03 20 ref usgs gazetteer References references Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Graham Land Category Landforms of James Ross Island GrahamLand geo stub ...   more details



  1. McMurdo Ice Shelf

    McMurdo Ice Shelf coord 78 0 S 166 30 E scale 2000000 display inline,title is the portion of the Ross Ice Shelf bounded by McMurdo Sound and Ross Island on the north and Minna Bluff on the south. Studies show this feature has characteristics quite distinct from the Ross Ice Shelf and merits individual naming. A.J. Heine , who made investigations in 1962 63, suggested the name for the ice shelf bounded by Ross Island , Brown Peninsula , Black Island Ross Archipelago Black Island and White Island Ross Archipelago White Island . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names US ACAN has extended the application of this name to include the contiguous ice shelf southward to Minna Bluff . In March 2010, while scientists were taking photographs of the underside of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, they discovered a living amphipod Lyssianasid amphipod . ref cite news url http news.blogs.cnn.com 2010 03 16 nasa discovers life hidden 600 feet below antarctic ice ?hpt T2 title NASA discovers life hidden 600 feet below Antarctic ice accessdate 2010 03 16 work CNN ref usgs gazetteer References reflist DEFAULTSORT Mcmurdo Ice Shelf Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Victoria Land Category Landforms of Ross Island Category Scott Coast ScottCoast geo stub RossIsland geo stub de McMurdo Schelfeis fr Barri re de McMurdo pt Plataforma de gelo de McMurdo ...   more details



  1. Swinburne Ice Shelf

    File AN Edward VII peninsula.png thumb 250px Area map of Swinburne Ice Shelf. Swinburne Ice Shelf coord 77 10 S 153 55 W scale 1000000 display inline,title , is an ice shelf just north of Edward VII Peninsula and the Alexandra Mountains in the southern part of Sulzberger Bay , Antarctica. The ice shelf is 20 miles long and 5 miles wide and extends from Fisher Island Antarctica Fisher Island to White Islands . It was photographed from aircraft and mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition ByrdAE , 1928 30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names US ACAN for Captain H.W Swinburne, Jr., Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, during Operation Deep Freeze 1970 and 1971. ref name USGSgnisjones cite web url gnis3 type antarid 14916 title Swinburne Ice Shelf work Geographic Names Information System publisher United States Geological Survey accessdate 2009 11 13 ref See also Ice shelves of Antarctica References reflist usgs gazetteer Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of the Ross Dependency Category King Edward VII Land RossDependency geo stub ...   more details



  1. Amery Ice Shelf

    update date June 2009 The Amery Ice Shelf coord 69 45 S 71 0 E scale 4000000 display inline,title is a broad ice shelf in Antarctica at the head of Prydz Bay between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast . It is part of Mac. Robertson Land . The name Cape Amery was applied to a coastal angle mapped on February 11, 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition BANZARE under Douglas Mawson . He named it for William B. Amery , who represented the United Kingdom government in Australia 1925 28 . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names interpreted this feature to be a portion of an ice shelf and, in 1947, applied the name Amery to the whole shelf. In December 2006, it was reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that Australian scientists were heading to the Amery Ice Shelf to investigate enormous cracks that had been forming for over a decade at a rate of three to five metres a day. These fractures threaten to break off a 1000 square kilometre piece of the Amery Ice Shelf. Scientist want to discover what is causing the cracks, as there has not been similar activity since the 1960s. However, the head of research believes that it is too early to attribute the cause to Global Warming as there is the possibility of a natural 50 60 year cycle being responsible. ref http www.abc.net.au news newsitems 200612 s1807679.htm Australians to study giant Antarctic ice cracks at ABC News Online Friday, December 8, 2006. 6 29pm ref Lambert Glacier flows from Lambert Graben into the Amery Ice Shelf on the southwest side of Prydz Bay. The Amery Basin coord 68 15 S 74 30 E scale 4000000 is an undersea basin north of the Amery Ice Shelf. The Amery Ice Shelf is small compared to the Ross Ice Shelf and the Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf . References reflist usgs gazetteer id 354 Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category King Edward VII Land MacRobertsonLand geo stub de Amery Schelfeis es Barrera de hielo Amery fr Barri re d Amery lv Eimerija ...   more details



  1. Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

    ice shelf covers some 430,000  km , making it the second largest ice shelf in Antarctica, after the Ross Ice Shelf . It grows perpetually due to a flow of inland ice sheets. From time to time, when ...Image A 38.jpg thumb The Ice calving calving of A 38 off Ronne ice shelf. Image The A38 B Iceberg Splits.gif ... ice shelf. The Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf , also known as Ronne Filchner Ice Shelf , is List of Antarctic ice shelves an Antarctic ice shelf bordering the Weddell Sea . Description The seaward side of the Filchner Ronne ice shelf is divided into Eastern Filchner coord 79 00 S 40 00 W scale 4000000 and the larger ... separate from the ice shelf and continue as iceberg s. This is known as Ice calving calving . The Ronne ice shelf is the larger and western part of the Filchner Ronne ice shelf. It is bounded on the west ... in 1947 48, discovered and photographed a strip along the entire northern portion of this ice shelf in two aircraft flights in November and December 1947. He named it the Lassiter Shelf Ice and gave ... Station , under now Captain Ronne, determined that the ice shelf was larger than previously ... US ACAN approved the name Ronne Ice Shelf for this large ice shelf, on the basis of first sighting and exploration of the ice shelf by Ronne and parties under his leadership. The shelf is therefore ... member. The Filchner ice shelf is the eastern part of the Filchner Ronne ice shelf. It is bounded ... A 38 iceberg A 38 broke off the Filchner Ronne ice shelf. It had a size of roughly 150 by 50 ... Ronne ice shelf can be as thick as 600  m the water below is about 1400  m deep at the deepest point. The international Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf Programme FRISP was initiated in 1973 to study the glaciological regime of the ice shelf. ref http neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov wais documentation chap6.html 6.2.1. Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf Programme . WAIS The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative. ref See also Ellsworth Station Weddell Gyre References reflist External links Commons Ice shelf ...   more details



  1. Milne Ice Shelf

    The Milne Ice Shelf , a fragment of the former Ellesmere Ice Shelf , is located in Qikiqtaaluk Region , Nunavut , Canada . It is the second largest ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean . Situated on the north west coast of Ellesmere Island , it is located about 270  km 170  mi west of Alert, Nunavut . In 1986, the ice shelf had an area of about 290 square kilometers, with a central thickness of 100 meters. ref http www.jstor.org pss 1551089 Glaciers and the morphology and structure of Milne Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada . Martin O. Jeffries. Arctic and Alpine Research 18 4. 1986. ref It was one of the settings of Dan Brown s book Deception Point . coord missing Nunavut References Reflist Category Geography of Qikiqtaaluk Region Category Ice shelves of the Arctic Ocean QikiqtaalukNU geo stub fr Barri re de Milne nl Milne ijsplateau ...   more details



  1. Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf

    File Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf 02.jpg thumb right 250px Satelitte image showing of Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf The Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf is an ice shelf on the north west part of Ellesmere Island , Canada . ref http www.science.mcmaster.ca geo faculty eyles c geo3g03 symposium2005 Glaciers 20of 20Ellesmere 20Island.ppt ref This ice mass is one of four remaining ice shelves on the island. This ice shelf lies between Alert Point and Cape Woods on Wootton Peninsula. The Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf is regarded as a composite ice shelf that is composed of an inner unit of glacial origin and a trunk glacier originating from sea ice. ref http pubs.usgs.gov pp p1386j iceshelves iceshelves.txt ref Some time around 1955, a section of the ice shelf broke off. It is now called the ARLIS II ice island. ref http journals.cambridge.org action displayAbstract?fromPage online&aid 5419328 ref Further reading Image Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf map 01.jpg thumb left 150px Map of part of Ellesmere Island showing location of Alfred Ernest Ice Shelf Glaciers of North America Canada, Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World, U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1386 J 1, pg J111 J143 Carsten Braun, Douglas R. Hardy, and Raymond S. Bradley, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 109, 2004 . Surface mass balance of the Ward Hunt Ice Rise and Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, Roy M. Koerner Earth Observatory, by Nasa Were a Part of the Earths Enterprise ref cite web url http earthobservatory.nasa.gov study wardhunt title Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf DAAC Study Feature Articles doi 10.1029 2003GL017931. publisher Earthobservatory.nasa.gov date accessdate 2010 07 30 ref Jiancheng Zheng, Akira Kudo, David A. Fisher, Erik W. Blake and M. Gerasimoff, The Holocene 8, 4 1998 pg. 413 421, Solid electrical conductivity ECM from four, Agassiz ice cores, Ellesmere Island NWT, Canada high resolution ... coord missing Nunavut Category Ice shelves Category Ice shelves of the Arctic Ocean QikiqtaalukNU geo ...   more details



  1. Ellesmere Ice Shelf

    The former Ellesmere Ice Shelf was the largest ice shelf in the Arctic, encompassing about convert 3500 sqmi km2 of the north coast of Ellesmere Island , Nunavut , Canada . ref name Ljunggren cite web url http news.yahoo.com s nm 20080729 wl canada nm canada arctic col title Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf accessdate 2008 07 29 author David Ljunggren date 29 July 2008 work publisher Reuters Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref The ice shelf was first documented by the British Arctic Expedition of 1875 76, in which Lieutenant Pelham Aldrich s party went from Cape Sheridan 82.47 ... Martin O. Jeffries, Ice Island Calvings and Ice Shelf Changes, Milne Ice Shelf and Ayles Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T. . Arctic 39 1 March 1986 ref The continuous mass of the Ellesmere Ice Shelf had been in place for at least 3,000 years Citation needed date December 2011 . During the twentieth century the Ellesmere Ice Shelf broke up into six separate shelves, the largest being the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf . During the 1980s reassuring official science reported that the remnants were stable Citation needed date December 2011 . main Ward Hunt Ice Shelf In April 2000, satellite images revealed that a large crack in the Ward Hunt shelf had begun to form, and in 2003 it was announced that the ice ... Study wardhunt title Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf author NASA Earth Observatory ref In April 2008, it was discovered that the shelf was fractured into dozens of deep, multi ... ice shelf signal its demise author Bob Weber, The Canadian Press work The Star location Toronto date 2008 04 12 accessdate 2010 05 01 ref main Ayles Ice Shelf On August 13, 2005, The Ayles Ice Shelf , which was located at coord 83 1.5 N 77 33.5 W , approximately convert 800 km mi abbr on south of the North Pole , broke away from the coast forming the giant Ayles Ice Island convert 37 m ft thick ... The Milne Ice Shelf is the second large segment of the former Ellesmere Ice Shelf. Notes Reflist 2 Category ...   more details



  1. Fimbul Ice Shelf

    coord 70 30 S 0 10 W display title type glacier scale 2000000 File Fimbul ice shelf mooring Norwegian Expedition.JPG thumb 300px In December 2009 new oceanographic moorings were deployed below the Fimbul ice shelf in the project Fimbul Ice Shelf Top to Bottom . Fimbul Ice Shelf is an ice shelf about 120 miles long and 60 miles wide, nourished by Jutulstraumen Glacier , bordering the coast of Queen Maud Land from 3 W to 3 E. It was photographed from the air by the Third German Antarctic Expedition 1938 39 , mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian British Swedish Antarctic Expedition NBSAE 1949 1952 and air photos by the Norwegian expedition 1958 59 and named Fimbulisen the giant ice . External links http fimbul.npolar.no en index.html Fimbul Ice Shelf top to bottom http folk.uib.no ngfls frisp Rep17 humbert05.pdf Numerical simulations of the ice flow dynamics of Fimbulisen usgs gazetteer Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Queen Maud Land Category Princess Martha Coast PrincessMarthaCoast geo stub fr Barri re de Fimbul lv Fimbulisens no Fimbulisen nn Fimbulisen i Antarktis pt Plataforma de gelo Fimbul sv Fimbul shelfis ...   more details



  1. Zubchatyy Ice Shelf

    Zubchatyy Ice Shelf coord 67 13 S 49 5 E scale 1000000 display inline,title is a small ice shelf which borders the south side of Sakellari Peninsula in Enderby Land . Plotted by Russian cartographers from air photos taken by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition , 1961 62. The Russian name means toothed and refers to the serrated nature of the ice front when viewed in plan. usgs gazetteer Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Enderby Land EnderbyLand geo stub ...   more details



  1. Stange Ice Shelf

    Stange Ice Shelf coord 73 15 S 076 30 W scale 2000000 display inline,title , is an Antarctic ice shelf in Stange Sound , English Coast , bounded to the east by Spaatz Island , to the northwest by Smyley Island , and to the west by fast ice in Carroll Inlet . Named in association with Stange Sound. ref name USGSgnisstange cite web url gnis3 type antarid 14471 title Stange Ice Shelf work Geographic Names Information System publisher United States Geological Survey accessdate 2009 11 06 ref In contrast to the some other ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula , for example the Larsen Ice Shelf , the Stange Ice Shelf has been relatively stable. ref name cook2009 cite journal author Cook A.J., Vaughan D.G. title Overview of areal changes of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years journal The Cryosphere Discuss volume 3 pages 579 630 year 2009 url http www.the cryosphere discuss.net 3 579 2009 tcd 3 579 2009.html ref See also Ice shelves of Antarctica References reflist usgs gazetteer Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Palmer Land PalmerLand geo stub ...   more details



  1. Ekstrom Ice Shelf

    Image Shelf ice edge hg.jpg thumb Edge of Ekstr m Ice Shelf Ekstr m Ice Shelf is the ice shelf lying between Sorasen Ridge and Halvfarryggen Ridge , on Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land . It occupies an area of 8,700  km . It was first mapped by the Norwegian British Swedish Antarctic Expedition NBSAE 1949 1952 , and named for Bertil Ekstr m, a Swedish mechanical engineer with NBSAE, who drowned when the weasel track driven vehicle he was driving plunged over the edge of Quar Ice Shelf on February 24, 1951. Ekstrom Ice Shelf is 160 meters thick at the edge, and rises 15 meters above the sea level. Germany s Neumayer Station III is in the northeast at Atka Bay . usgs gazetteer coord 71 0 S 8 0 W display title type glacier scale 2000000 Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Queen Maud Land Category Princess Martha Coast PrincessMarthaCoast geo stub bg de Ekstr m Schelfeis lv kstrema elfa led js no Ekstr misen sv Ekstr m shelfisen ...   more details



  1. M'Clintock Ice Shelf

    coord 82 55 N 77 30 W type glacier scale 3000000 region CA display title The M Clintock Ice Shelf was a Ice shelf Canadian ice shelves Canadian ice shelf attached to northern Ellesmere Island . By 1961 62, its connection was tenuous. ref cite journal url http 209.85.141.104 search?q cache 6TadLpn6HOUJ www.cen.ulaval.ca warwickvincent PDFfiles 149.pdf 22M 27Clintock Ice Shelf 22&hl en&ct clnk&cd 5&gl us&client firefox a pages 3 title Ice shelf collapse, climate change, and habitat loss in the Canadian high Arctic accessdate 2008 09 05 last Vincent first W.F. coauthors Gibson, J.A.E & Jeffries, M.O. date 2001 volume 37 journal Polar Record publisher ulaval.ca ref Most of the shelf broke away during the period of 1963 through 1965 with the remainder 10  km sup 2 sup lodged at Borup Point breaking off in 1966. ref cite web url http www.geo.umass.edu climate TILPHTML Watershedgeography.html title Taconite Inlet Project accessdate 2008 09 05 last Climate System Research Center first coauthors date work publisher umass.edu ref Subsequently, multi year Fast ice landfast sea ice , containing ice shelf fragments, has covered the M Clintock Inlet mouth. ref cite book pages p. 16 url http 209.85.141.104 search?q cache xSrR2M5OyrYJ ice glaces.ec.gc.ca content contenu ice archive Jeffries ice shelf.pdf 22M 27Clintock Ice Shelf 22&hl en&ct clnk&cd 16&gl us&client firefox a title Glaciers of North America satellite image atlas of glaciers of the world accessdate 2008 09 05 last Jeffires first M.O. coauthors Edited by Williams, R.S. & Ferrigno, J.G. date 2002 work publisher U.S. Geological Survey, Information Services location Washington, D.C. isbn 060798290X ref References Reflist Category Ellesmere Island Category Geography of Qikiqtaaluk Region Category Ice shelves of the Arctic Ocean QikiqtaalukNU geo stub ...   more details



  1. Quar Ice Shelf

    coord 71 20 S 11 0 W display title type glacier scale 2000000 Quar Ice Shelf is the ice shelf between Cape Norvegia and Sorasen Ridge along the coast of Queen Maud Land . Discovery and Naming It was mapped by the Norwegian British Swedish Antarctic Expedition NBSAE 1949 1952 . The ice shelf was named for Leslie Quar , a British radio mechanic and electrician with NBSAE, who drowned when the weasel track driven vehicle in which he was riding drove over the edge of this ice shelf on February 24, 1951. The NBSAE established Maudheim Station about 1 mile south of Norsel Iceport . usgs gazetteer Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Queen Maud Land Category Princess Astrid Coast PrincessAstridCoast geo stub lv Kvara elfa led js no Quarisen ...   more details



  1. George VI Ice Shelf

    File Mountains on Alexander Island.jpg thumb George VI Ice Shelf The George VI Ice Shelf coord 71 45 S 68 00 W scale 4000000 display inline,title is an extensive ice shelf that occupies George VI Sound between Alexander Island and Palmer Land in Antarctica . The ice shelf extends from Ronne Entrance , at the southwest end of the sound geography sound , to Niznik Island , about convert 30 nmi 0 south of the north entrance between Cape Brown and Cape Jeremy . It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place Names Committee UK APC in association with George VI Sound. usgs gazetteer Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Alexander Island Category Landforms of Palmer Land AlexanderIsland geo stub PalmerLand geo stub fr Barri re de George VI sv George VI shelfis ...   more details



  1. Ward Hunt Ice Shelf

    The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the Arctic , located on the north coast of Ellesmere Island , Nunavut , Canada . During the 20th century the Ellesmere Ice Shelf broke up into six separate shelves, the largest being Ward Hunt. Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is about convert 155 sqmi km2 in size, and has been in place for approximately 3,000 years as part of a continuous ice shelf that encompasses ... Ljunggren In 2005 one of the other shelves, the convert 25 sqmi km2 adj on Ayles Ice Shelf , calved completely. ref name Ljunggren The Ellesmere ice shelf was documented by the British Arctic Expedition ... west to Cape Alert 82.27 N, 85.55 W , including the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf. ref Martin O. Jeffries Jeffries, Martin O . http pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca arctic Arctic39 1 15.pdf Ice Island Calvings and Ice Shelf Changes, Milne Ice Shelf and Ayles Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T. . Arctic 39 1 March 1986 ref The Ward Hunt ice sheet began breaking up approximately 100 years ago, but was believed to have stabilized by the early 1980s. However, in April 2000, satellite images revealed that a large crack in the ice had begun to form, and in 2003, it was announced that the ice sheet had split completely in two ... title Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf author NASA Earth Observatory ref In April 2008, it was discovered ... http www.thestar.com News Canada article 413838 title Cracks in Arctic ice shelf signal its demise author ...?sp true title Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf accessdate 2008 07 29 author David Ljunggren ... calved off from the northeast quarter of the ice shelf. The icebergs released by the breakup now pose ... shelf 2011 09 30 title Canadian Arctic Nearly Loses Entire Ice Shelf date 2011 09 30 author The Associated ... Ice Shelf is tied to steady and dramatic increases in the average temperature of the region over the past ... Features wardhunt title Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf author Michon Scott date 20 January ... ref name bbc cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi science nature 3132074.stm title Arctic ice shelf ...   more details



  1. Getz Ice Shelf

    File Getz Ice Shelf.jpg thumb Getz Ice Shelf Getz Ice Shelf is an Antarctica Antarctic ice shelf , over 480 km 300 mi long and from 32 to 96 km 20 to 60 mi wide, bordering the Hobbs and Bakutis Coasts of Marie Byrd Land between McDonald Heights and Martin Peninsula . Several large islands are partially or wholly embedded in the ice shelf. The ice shelf westward of Siple Island was discovered by the USAS in December 1940. The portion eastward of Siple Island was first delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump , 1946 47. The entire feature was mapped by the USGS from U.S. Navy air photos of 1962 65. Named by the USAS 1939 41 for George F. Getz of Chicago, Illinois , who helped furnish the seaplane for the expedition. See also DeVicq Glacier List of glaciers List of Antarctic ice shelves usgs gazetteer id 5635 MarieByrdLand geo stub coord 74 15 S 125 00 W display title source gnis scale 4000000 Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Marie Byrd Land de Getz Schelfeis ja pl Lodowiec szelfowy Getza ...   more details



  1. Wyers Ice Shelf

    Wyers Ice Shelf is a small Antarctic ice shelf located on the east side of the base of Sakellari Peninsula . References references External links http www.mapplanet.com ?do loc&country A&adm1 02&loc 20013615 Map of the area coord 67 11 S 49 54 E scale 1000000 display title Category Ice shelves of Antarctica ...   more details



  1. Slava Ice Shelf

    Slava Ice Shelf coord 68 49 S 154 44 E scale 1000000 display inline,title , is an ice shelf along the coast of Antarctica between Mawson Peninsula and Cape Andreyev . The feature was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy USN Operation Highjump in 1947. The area was photographed in 1958 by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition SovAE which applied the name Zaliv Slava to the wide open bay that fronts this ice shelf. This name decision is in accord with the recommendation by ANCA that the name would be appropriately applied to the ice shelf. Named after the Soviet whaling flotilla Slava. ref name USGSgnisjones cite web url gnis3 type antarid 14012 title Slava Ice Shelf work Geographic Names Information System publisher United States Geological Survey accessdate 2009 11 13 ref See also Ice shelves of Antarctica References reflist usgs gazetteer Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Oates Land OatesLand geo stub ...   more details



  1. Jones Ice Shelf

    Jones Ice Shelf coord 67 31 S 067 01 W , was the ice shelf occupying the Jones Channel , between the Arrowsmith Peninsula and Blaiklock Island , on the west coast of Graham Land , Antarctica. Named by the UK Antarctic Place names Committee UK APC in 1981 in association with the channel. ref name USGSgnisjones cite web url gnis3 type antarid 7640 title Jones Ice Shelf work Geographic Names Information System publisher United States Geological Survey accessdate 2009 11 06 ref The shelf was stable between 1947 and 1969. It started to retreat in the 1970s and by 2003 had completely disappeared. ref name fox2005 cite journal author Fox A.J., Vaughan D.G. title The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula journal Journal of Glaciology volume 51 pages 555 560 year 2005 doi 10.3189 172756505781829043 ref See also Ice shelves of Antarctica References reflist usgs gazetteer Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Landforms of Graham Land Category Loubet Coast GrahamLand geo stub ...   more details



  1. Muller Ice Shelf

    Muller Ice Shelf , also known as M ller Ice Shelf ref Gabrielle Walker Southern exposure http www.newscientist.com article mg16321994.900 southern exposure.html in New Scientist, Nr. 2199, 14 August 1999 ref according to the original German spelling of the family name M ller , coor dm 67 15 S 66 52 W was an ice shelf lying southwest of Hooke Point in southwest Lallemand Fjord , Arrowsmith Peninsula , Loubet Coast . It was nurtured by Bruckner Glacier and Antevs Glacier . It collapsed recently as at late March 2008 ref cite web url http www.antarctica.ac.uk press press releases press release.php?id 376 title Press Release Antarctic ice shelf hangs by a thread date March 25, 2008 work National Environment Research Council publisher British Antarctic Survey accessdate 2009 03 20 ref . The name was given by United Kingdom Antarctic Place Names Committee UK APC in 1981 in memory of Fritz M ller glaciologist Fritz Muller 1926 80 , a Swiss glaciologist, who carried out research in Switzerland, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic , and the Himalayas. References references usgs gazetteer DEFAULTSORT Muller Ice Shelf Category Ice shelves of Antarctica Category Loubet Coast Category Landforms of Graham Land GrahamLand geo stub ...   more details




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