Ekström Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 70 ° 40 ′ 40 ″ S , 8 ° 16 ′ 18 ″ W
The Ekström Ice Shelf (following the official naming convention for geographical areas in Antarctica: Ekströmisen ) is a 8,700 km² floating part of the Antarctic ice sheet between Søråsen and Halvfarryggen on the Princess Martha Coast , Queen Maud Land , and is to be assigned to the Saumschelfen.
The area, which was mapped from 1949 to 1952 during the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition , is named after the Swedish engineer Bertil Ekström (1919–1951), who crashed on February 24, 1951 from the edge of the western Quar Ice Shelf . The edge of the ice shelf is 160 meters high and protrudes 15 meters above sea level.
The Georg von Neumayer Station , which went into operation in March 1981, was built on the northeast of the Ekström Ice Shelf . To the south of this is the now abandoned Neumayer Station II and the Neumayer Station III, which opened in February 2009 .
literature
- Marcel Nicolaus: Numerical modeling of oceanic circulation in the cavern of the Ekström Ice Shelf (PDF; 3.56 MB), diploma thesis, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2002, pp. 46–47.
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . tape 1 . McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 484-485 .