Wilkins Ice Shelf

Antarctica Research Professor Nancy Bertler warns the collapse of another iceberg, the Ross Ice shelf, could increase the speed of land ice flowing into the sea. That could consequently raise sea levels by 3.3 meters...That's almost 11 feet. A sea level rise of that capacity would dramatically alter coastlines ...

In fact, Larsen C is one of the last ice shelves in this region still standing. Larsen A disintegrated in 1995, Larsen B in 2002, the Wilkins Ice Shelf continued to break up through at least 2013, and according to Rignot, Larsen C and the George VI Ice Shelf are "not looking good." It may take years for us to know ...

An area of the Larsen C ice shelf, about as big as the US state of Delaware or the Indonesian island of Bali, is connected by just 13 km (8 miles) of ice after a crack has crept about 175 kms along the sheet, with a new jump ... Ice shelves are flat-topped areas of ice floating on the sea at the end of glaciers.

In recent decades, a dozen major ice shelves have disintegrated, significantly retreated or lost substantial volume - including Prince Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller, Jones Channel, and Wilkins. Prof Luckman's MIDAS Project is posting updates on the Larsen crack on its ...

In West Antarctica, a huge ice shelf called Larsen C has developed a rift 175 kilometres long and half-a-kilometre wide. A chunk of the ... Ice shelves are extensions of ice sheets, are fed by their glaciers and jut hundreds of kilometres out to sea. Sprawled ... km chunk of the Wilkins ice shelf broke off in 2008.

The Larsen B Ice Shelf further to the north famously shattered following a similar large calving event in 2002. The issue is important because floating ice shelves ordinarily act as a buttress to the glaciers flowing off the land behind them. In the case of Larsen B, those glaciers subsequently sped up in the ...

Larsen A and B ice shelves, which were further north on the Antarctic Peninsula, collapsed in 1995 and 2002, respectively. This resulted in the dramatic ... and contributing to sea-level rise. The video below shows footage from the breakup of the Wilkins ice shelf, also on the Antarctic Peninsula, in 2008.

British Antarctic Survey researchers have a long running research programme to monitor ice shelves from both above and below to understand the ... Director of Science at British Antarctic Survey, said, "The calving of this large iceberg could be the first step of the collapse of Larsen C ice shelf, which would ...

Antarctic ice shelves, which ride atop ocean waters, ring the continent and hold back land-based glaciers. The most vulnerable regions are ... The most recent event was the disintegration of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in 2009, the tenth major ice shelf collapse in modern times. Scientists cannot predict the timing ...

The ice shelf was crisscrossed with narrow cracks—which the men nervously jumped over—and dotted with deep blue melt ponds. ... The catastrophic collapse of Larsen A and several other ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula has yielded important lessons about the vulnerability of Antarctica's ice ...