Cosgrove Ice Shelf is a long by wide

ice shelf An ice shelf is a large floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are only found in Antarctica, Greenland, Northern Canada, and the Russian Arctic. The b ...

, occupying the inner (east) part of the embayment between

King Peninsula King Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula, long and wide, lying south of Thurston Island and forming the south side of Peacock Sound, Antarctica. It projects from the continental ice sheet and trends west between the Abbot Ice Shelf and Cos ...

and

Canisteo Peninsula Canisteo Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula, about long and wide, which projects between Ferrero Bay and Cranton Bay into the eastern extremity of the Amundsen Sea. It was delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump i ...

, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy

Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Jerome R. Cosgrove, U.S. Navy Reserve, assistant communications officer on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Navy Support Force, Antarctica, during U.S. Navy

Operation Deep Freeze Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. (There w ...

, 1967 and 1968.

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', P 198 * Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al.,
The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves
', Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5 * Biddle, L.C., K.J. Heywood, J. Kaiser, and A. Jenkins, 2017,
Glacial Meltwater Identification in the Amundsen Sea
', J. Phys. Oceanogr., 47, 933–954, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-16-0221.1 * Minzoni, R. T., Majewski, W., Anderson, J. B., Yokoyama, Y., Fernandez, R., & Jakobsson, M. (2017),
Oceanographic influences on the stability of the Cosgrove Ice Shelf, Antarctica
', The Holocene, 27(11), 1645–1658. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683617702226

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Ice shelves of Antarctica Bodies of ice of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub

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