Prince Gustav Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 64 ° 15 ′ S , 58 ° 30 ′ W
The Prinz Gustav Ice Shelf was an Antarctic ice shelf with an area of 1600 km², which occupied the southern part of the Prinz Gustav Canal on the northeast coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, including the Röhss Bay on the coast of James Ross Island . It was associated with the Larsen Ice Shelf until the forties of the twentieth century . After a period of steady decline, it finally dissolved completely in 1995.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the ice shelf in 1990 based on the naming of the channel of the same name. Both objects are named after the Swedish Crown Prince and later King Gustav V (1858–1950).
Individual evidence
- ^ AJ Cook and DG Vaughan, Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years, The Cryosphere, 4, 77–98, 2010 www.the-cryosphere.net/4/77/2010/
Web links
- Prince Gustav Ice Shelf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Prince Gustav Ice Shelf on geographic.org