List of Antarctic ice shelves
Ross (472,960 km2)
Filchner-Ronne (422,420 km2)
Amery (62,620 km2)
Larsen (48,600 km2)
Riiser-Larsen (48,180 km2)
Fimbul (41,060 km2)
Shackleton (33,820 km2)
George VI (23,880 km2)
West (16,370 km2)
Wilkins (13,680 km2)
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.[1] Names are also listed in the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Gazetteer.[2] The ice shelf areas are listed below, clockwise, starting in the west of East Antarctica:
- Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
- Brunt Ice Shelf
- Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf
- Quar Ice Shelf
- Ekstrom Ice Shelf
- Jelbart Ice Shelf
- Fimbul Ice Shelf
- Vigrid Ice Shelf
- Nivl Ice Shelf
- Lazarev Ice Shelf
- King Baudouin Ice Shelf
- Hannan Ice Shelf
- Zubchatyy Ice Shelf
- Wyers Ice Shelf
- Edward VIII Ice Shelf
- Amery Ice Shelf
- Publications Ice Shelf
- West Ice Shelf
- Shackleton Ice Shelf
- Totten Ice Shelf
- Moscow University Ice Shelf
- Voyeykov Ice Shelf
- Ninnis Ice Shelf
- Cook Ice Shelf
- Rennick Ice Shelf
- Slava Ice Shelf
- Gillett Ice Shelf
- Nansen Ice Sheet
- McMurdo Ice Shelf
- Ross Ice Shelf
- Swinburne Ice Shelf
- Sulzberger Ice Shelf
- Nickerson Ice Shelf
- Getz Ice Shelf
- Dotson Ice Shelf
- Crosson Ice Shelf
- Thwaites Ice Shelf
- Cosgrove Ice Shelf
- Abbot Ice Shelf
- Venable Ice Shelf
- Stange Ice Shelf
- Bach Ice Shelf
- George VI Ice Shelf
- Wilkins Ice Shelf
- Wordie Ice Shelf †
- Jones Ice Shelf †
- Müller Ice Shelf †
- Prince Gustav Ice Shelf †
- Larsen Ice Shelf † (Larsen A)
- Ronne Ice Shelf
- † Indicates that the ice shelf has collapsed.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Maailma numeroina (The world in numbers)" (in Finnish). Tilastokeskus (Statistics Finland). Archived from the original (XLS) on 2009-09-02. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
- ^ SCAR. "Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica". Archived from the original on 2009-01-23. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ "Press Release - Antarctic ice shelf 'hangs by a thread'". National Environment Research Council. British Antarctic Survey. March 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
