Larsen Ice Shelf

См. также в других словарях:

• Larsen Ice Shelf — The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long, fringing ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to the area just southward of Hearst Island. Named for Captain Carl Anton Larsen …   Wikipedia

• Larsen Ice Shelf — /lahr seuhn/ an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the NW Weddell Sea, on the E coast of the Antarctic Peninsula: first explored 1893. * * * Ice shelf in the northwestern Weddell Sea, adjoining the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is named …   Universalium

• Larsen Ice Shelf — /lahr seuhn/ an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the NW Weddell Sea, on the E coast of the Antarctic Peninsula: first explored 1893 …   Useful english dictionary

• Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf — (coord|72|40|S|16|0|W|) is an ice shelf about 250 miles (400 km) long on the coast of Queen Maud Land, extending from Cape Norvegia in the north to Lyddan Island and Stancomb Wills Glacier in the south. Parts of the ice shelf were sighted by… …   Wikipedia

• 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 found in Antarctica, Greenland and Canada only. The boundary between the floating ice… …   Wikipedia

• Ice shelf — Barrière de glace Principales barrières de glace de l Antarctique      Barrière de Ross (472 960 km²) …   Wikipédia en Français

• Ross Ice Shelf — The Ross Ice Shelf (coord|81|30|S|175|00|W|) is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly 487 000 km², and about 800 km across: about the size of France [http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about antarctica/teacher… …   Wikipedia

• Ayles Ice Shelf — The Ayles Ice Shelf was one of six major ice shelves in Canada, all located on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. The ice shelf broke off from the coast on August 13, 2005, forming a giant ice island m to… …   Wikipedia

• Larsen — may refer to:In engineering: * Larsen Toubro, India s largest engineering and construction conglomeratePeople with the surname Larsen: *Larsen (surname)ee also* [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/larsen.html Leonard Larson Papers, 1942… …   Wikipedia

• Larsen-Schelfeis — 67.5 62.5 Koordinaten: 67° 30′ 0″ S, 62° 30′ 0″ W …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Ice rise — An ice rise is a clearly defined elevation of the otherwise totally flat ice shelf, typically dome shaped and rising 100 to 200 meters above the surrounding ice shelf. An ice rise forms where the ice shelf touches the rocky seabed because of an… …   Wikipedia