Antarctica: the icy continent

Amery Ice Shelf is a major floating slab of glacier ice, underlain by marine ice frozen onto the bottom, fed by arguably the world’s biggest glacier, the Lambert. Here we are looking across the inner reaches of the ice shelf from Fisher Massif, a 1700 m high nunatak along the Lambert Glacier’s western flank. MH

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