Shackleton Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 66 ° 0 ′ S , 100 ° 0 ′ E
The Shackleton Ice Shelf ( English Shackleton Ice Shelf ) is a large ice shelf on the Queen Mary coast and the Knox coast of the Antarctic continent with a length of 384 km and an area of 33,820 km². There are several islands in the Shackleton Ice Shelf, of which Mill Island and Masson Island are the largest.
The ice shelf was discovered during the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) led by Charles Wilkes in 1840, but only explored during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914). Expedition leader Douglas Mawson named it after the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton , in whose Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) Mawson was involved. Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used in 1955 to map the ice shelf. Soviet scientists carried out their own mapping in 1956. It showed that the ice shelf in the east extends beyond Scott Glacier to 105 degrees east longitude .
Web links
- Shackleton Ice Shelf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Shackleton Ice Shelf on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1396 (English).