An ice shelf is a large platform of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by one or multiple tributary glaciers. Ice shelves form along coastlines where...

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (as of 2013[update], an area of roughly 500,809 square kilometres (193,363 sq mi) and about 800...

The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape...

The Abbot Ice Shelf (72°45′S 96°00′W / 72.750°S 96.000°W / -72.750; -96.000 (Abbot Ice Shelf)) is an ice shelf 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi)...

Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf or Ronne–Filchner Ice Shelf is an Antarctic ice shelf bordering the Weddell Sea. The seaward side of the Filchner–Ronne ice shelf is divided...

or ice disruption. It is the sudden release and breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg, ice front, ice shelf, or crevasse. The ice that...

The Getz Ice Shelf (74°15′S 125°00′W / 74.250°S 125.000°W / -74.250; -125.000 (Getz Ice Shelf)) is an ice shelf over 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi)...

Brunt Ice Shelf The Brunt Ice Shelf borders the Antarctic coast of Coats Land between Dawson-Lambton Glacier and Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue. It was...

glacier behind them, while an absence of an ice shelf becomes destabilizing. For instance, when Larsen B ice shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula had collapsed...

Shelf ice is ice that forms when a portion of a lake surface freezes. It is often then washed upon the shore. The phenomenon is common within the Great...