The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (as of 2013, an area of roughly 500,809 square kilometres (193,363 sq mi) and about 800 kilometres (500 mi) across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 kilometres (370 mi) long, and between 15 and 50 metres (50 and 160 ft) high above …

An ice shelf is a large floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. ... The world's largest ice shelves are the Ross Ice Shelf and the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The term captured ice shelf has been used for the ice over a subglacial lake, such as Lake Vostok

People. Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan; Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland; Places. RoSS, the Republic of South Sudan; Antarctica. Ross Sea; Ross Ice Shelf; Ross Dependency; Australia. Ross, Tasmania

Physical characteristics. Wildlife in the sound include killer whales, seals, Adélie penguins, and emperor penguins.. Boundary and Extents. The sound extends approximately 55 kilometers (34 mi) in length and width, and opens into the larger Ross Sea to the north. To the south, the sound is bounded by the Ross Ice Shelf cavity, to the west lies the Royal Society Range, and to the …

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods.The shelf surrounding an island is known as an insular shelf.. The continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep …

The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth.It covers an area of almost 14 million km 2 (5.4 million mi 2) and contains 30 million km 3 of ice. Around 90% of the Earth's ice mass is in Antarctica, which, if melted, would cause sea levels to rise by 58 meters (190 feet). The continent-wide average surface temperature trend of Antarctica is positive and significant at …

The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of Earth.It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth, with an average thickness of over 2 kilometers. In East Antarctica, the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, while in West Antarctica the bed can extend to more than 2,500 m below sea level. ...

The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe.The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.. The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in the 15th and 16th centuries proved that Terra …

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (UK: / ˈ ɑː m ʊ n d s ən /, US: /-m ə n s-/; Norwegian: [ˈrùːɑɫ ˈɑ̂mʉnsən] (); 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.. Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Amundsen began his career as a polar explorer as first mate on …

The geology of Wester Ross consists predominantly of Torridonian sandstone and Lewisian gneiss.The latter was formed during the Precambrian period, and is the oldest rock type found in Scotland; indeed the rocks around Gruinard Bay are, at 2.5 billion years old, amongst the oldest rocks in the world. The Torridonian sandstone was formed by the deposition of sediment on top …