Mountains on Alexander Island (6280158413)

The George VI Ice Shelf () is an extensive

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 ...

that occupies

George VI Sound George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/ fault depression, 300 miles (483 km) long and mainly covered by a permanent ice shelf. It ...

which separates

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...

from Palmer Land in

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

. The ice shelf extends from Ronne Entrance, at the southwest end of the

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, to Niznik Island, about south of the north entrance between Cape Brown and

Cape Jeremy Cape Jeremy is a cape marking the east side of the north entrance to George VI Sound and the west end of a line dividing Graham Land and Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Graham Land expedition, 1934–37, under John Riddoc ...

. It was named by the

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in association with George VI Sound.

* J.Loynes, J.R.Potter, J.G.Paren,
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),
Circulation and melting beneath George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica
', JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113, C04013, doi:10.1029/2007JC004449, 2008 * M.H. Talbot,
OCEANIC ENVIRONMENT OF GEORGE VI ICE SHELF, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA
'', Annals of Glaciology 11 1988 *
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,
Early Holocene retreat of the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
', Geology, 33 (3). 173–176. https://doi.org/10.1130/G21203.1

References

Ice shelves of Antarctica Bodies of ice of Alexander Island Bodies of ice of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub

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