Wyers Ice Shelf
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Wyers Ice Shelf is a small Antarctic
ice shelf
located on the east side of the base of Sakellari Peninsula
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Antarctic
The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...
ice shelf
Ice shelf
An ice shelf is a thick, 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 and Canada. The boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded ice that feeds it is called...
located on the east side of the base of Sakellari Peninsula
Sakellari Peninsula
Sakellari Peninsula is a large ice-covered peninsula between Amundsen Bay and Casey Bay in Enderby Land, Antarctica. This region was photographed by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956-57 and by the Soviet expedition in the Lena in 1957. Named by the Soviet expedition for...
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