Crack in Antarctic ice sheet expected to create iceberg the size of Brisbane

• Main Author: Cook, S
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ABC Radio National 2016
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Glaciology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Brisbane; Ogilvie; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/110971

Imagine a piece of ice the size of Brisbane.It's cracking on the edge of a massive ice sheet in Western Antarctica. An Ice shelf expert at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre Dr Sue Cook told reporter Felicity Ogilvie the ice sheet is on the Antarctic Peninsula belo...