Sulzberger Bay () is a bay between Fisher Island and

Vollmer Island The Marshall Archipelago () is an extensive group of large ice-covered islands within the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Discovery and name Several of the islands in the Marshall Archipelago were discovered and plotted by the Byrd Antarctic E ...

, along the coast of King Edward VII Land. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on December 5, 1929, and named by Byrd for Arthur H. Sulzberger, publisher of ''

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'', a supporter of the Byrd expeditions in 1928–1930 and 1933–1935. The Sulzberger Bay indents the front of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf (), an ice shelf about long and wide bordering the coast of Marie Byrd Land between Edward VII Peninsula and

Guest Peninsula Guest Peninsula is a snow-covered peninsula about long between the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay, on Saunders Coast in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mitchell Peak, located on the peninsula, was sighted by the first By ...

. The ice shelf was observed and roughly mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). Sulzberger Basin () is an undersea basin on the central Ross shelf named in association with the Sulzberger Bay.

Iceberg formation

The ice shelf released icebergs within a day of the

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...

. Scientists have linked the

ice calving Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.Essentials of Geology, 3rd edition, Stephen Marshak It is a form of ice ablation or ice disruption. It is the sudden release ...

to the tsunami reaching the ice shelf, some away from the earthquake epicenter. The main iceberg was approximately the area of

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. In total, the icebergs calved from the ice shelf totalled an area of nearly 125 km² (48 mi²). This section of the shelf had not moved since 1946.

Features

* Ford Ranges

References

External links

Japan's Tsunami Rips Icebergs Double the Size of Manhattan From Antarctica
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Japan Tsunami Broke Off Icebergs in Antarctica
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