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2. List of Antarctic ice shelves - Wikipedia

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   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 [Wikidata]

3. Antarctic ice sheet - Wikipedia

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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 miles) and an average thickness of over 2 kilometres (1.2 mi). It is the largest of Earth's two current ice sheets, containing 26.5 million cubic kilometres (6,400,000 cubic miles) of ice ...

4. Ice shelf - Wikipedia

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   Some named Antarctic iceshelves. Ice shelf extending approximately 6 miles into the Antarctic Sound from Joinville Island. An ice shelf is "a floating slab of ice originating from land of considerable thickness extending from the coast (usually of great horizontal extent with a very gently sloping surface), resulting from the flow of ice sheets, initially formed by the accumulation of snow ...

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6. Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf - Wikipedia

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   The Filchner ice shelf is the eastern part of the Filchner–Ronne ice shelf. It is bounded on the west by Berkner Island and on the east by Coats Land. The east part of this shelf was discovered in January–February 1912 by the German Antarctic Expedition under Wilhelm Filchner. Filchner named the feature for Kaiser Wilhelm, but the Emperor ...

7. Ice calving - Wikipedia

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   An ice shelf in steady state calves at roughly the same rate as the influx of new ice, [8] [9] and calving events may occur on sub-annual to decadal timescales to maintain an overall average mean position of the ice shelf front. When calving rates exceed the influx of new ice, ice front retreat occurs, and ice shelves may grow smaller and ...