List of Antarctic ice shelves

Antarctica's major 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.

Edge of Ekstrom Ice Shelf

Ice shelves are attached to 44% 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 Ice Shelf Brunt Ice Shelf Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf Quar Ice Shelf Ekstrom Ice Shelf Jelbart Ice Shelf Fimbul 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 Moscow University Ice Shelf Voyeykov Ice Shelf Cook 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 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

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• List of Antarctic ice streams
• Retreat of glaciers since 1850

References

1. "Maailma numeroina (The world in numbers)" (XLS) (in Finnish). Tilastokeskus (Statistics Finland).
2. SCAR. "Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica". Retrieved 2009-01-26.
3. "Press Release - Antarctic ice shelf 'hangs by a thread'". National Environment Research Council. British Antarctic Survey. March 25, 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-20.