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George VI Ice Shelf

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The George VI Ice Shelf ({{coord|71|45|S|68|00|W|scale:4000000_source:GNIS |display=inline,title}}) is an extensive ice shelf that occupies George VI Sound which separates Alexander Island from Palmer Land in Antarctica. The ice shelf extends from Ronne Entrance, at the southwest end of the sound, to Niznik Island, about {{convert|30|nmi|km}} south of the north entrance between Cape Brown and Cape Jeremy. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in association with George VI Sound.

History

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The George VI shelf ice and George VI Strait were discovered in 1935 during a flight by Lincoln Ellsworth.

The area was explored by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936–1937 led by John Riddoch Rymill and in 1940 by the American USAS.

In 1975, the name was determined by the American "Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names" (US-ACAN, a unit of the United States Geological Survey) and the British "Antarctic Place-Names Committee" (UK-APC, a unit of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office).{{Cite web |title=SCAR Composite Gazetteer |url=https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=125623 |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=data.aad.gov.au}}

Further reading

  • J.Loynes, J.R.Potter, J.G.Paren, [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0198014984900116 Current, temperature, and salinity beneath George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica], Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers Volume 31, Issue 9, September 1984, Pages 1037-1055
  • Jenkins, A., and S. Jacobs (2008), [https://web.archive.org/web/20200112205111/https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2007JC004449 Circulation and melting beneath George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica], JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113, C04013, doi:10.1029/2007JC004449, 2008
  • M.H. Talbot, [https://www.igsoc.org/annals/11/igs_annals_vol11_year1988_pg161-164.pdf OCEANIC ENVIRONMENT OF GEORGE VI ICE SHELF, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031095259/https://www.igsoc.org/annals/11/igs_annals_vol11_year1988_pg161-164.pdf |date=31 October 2019 }}, Annals of Glaciology 11 1988
  • [https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/research_projects/?mode=project&id=49 Millennial-Scale History of the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula]
  • Bentley, M.J.; Hodgson, D.A. ; Sugden, D.E.; Roberts, S.J.; Smith, J.A.; Leng, M.J. ; Bryant, C. 2005, [http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1631/ Early Holocene retreat of the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula], Geology, 33 (3). 173–176. https://doi.org/10.1130/G21203.1

References

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Category:Ice shelves of Antarctica

Category:Bodies of ice of Alexander Island

Category:Bodies of ice of Palmer Land

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