Tag: ice shelf
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At Berkner Island, science unravels Antarctica’s hidden mechanics
Almost everything about this place resists the ordinary idea of an island. Berkner Island lies in Antarctica, enclosed not by open sea but by the floating mass of the Ronne Ice Shelf in the southern Weddell Sea. It is large by any standard—about 320 kilometers long and roughly 135 kilometers wide—yet for long stretches of…