A synthesis of remote sensing data on Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Vaughan, David G., Mantripp, D.R., Sievers, J., Doake, C.S.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 1993
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Charcot; Wilkins; Wordie; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Rothschild; Latady; Wordie Ice Shelf; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518110/; https://doi.org/10.3189/S0260305500012866

Wilkins Ice Shelf has an area of 16000 km2 and lies off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula bounded by Alexander, Latady, Charcot and Rothschild islands. Several ice shelves, including Wilkins, exist close to a climatic limit of viability. The recent disintegration of the neighbouring Wordie I...