Ross Ice Shelf
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The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica. It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 m high abov
Ross Ice Shelf cliff at the Bay of Whales
Crevasse, Ross Ice Shelf in 2001
"The mystic Barrier" at Bay of Whales, near where Amundsen first encountered it. Note humans for size comparison (dark spots at left between large chunks of sea ice, near the left image border). RV Nathaniel B. Palmer is in the distance.
Antarctica (Ross Ice Shelf) taken from orbit by Galileo
Iceberg B-15
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Iceberg B 15 was the largest recorded iceberg by area. It measured around 295 by 37 kilometres, with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres, about the size of the island of Jamaica. Calved from th
Northern edge of Iceberg B-15A in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, 29 January 2001
Iceberg B-15A four-year journey, July 2002 to March 2006
USCGC Polar Sea nears Iceberg B-15A in January 2001
Researchers installing weather and GPS instruments on Iceberg B-15A, 29 January 2001