Wilkins ice shelf

Breaking up is (not so) hard to do

by Gareth March 26, 2008

“Hot” news from the Antarctic: another ice sheet is breaking up. The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a 13,680 square kilometre ice shelf on the SW coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, began to break up at the end of February. From the NSIDC release: Satellite images indicate that the Wilkins began its collapse on February 28; data [...]

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