❄️ Ice Shelves of the World

These are notable ice shelves — the vast floating platforms where glacier ice flows off a continent and spreads thin on the sea, calving tabular icebergs and buttressing the ice sheet behind them, from the Ross and Filchner-Ronne shelves to the collapsing Larsen fronts and Greenland’s Petermann. Each profile shows where the shelf spreads, its nearest country, and a plain-English introduction from Wikipedia.

53 ice shelves from 2 countries are covered below, grouped by continent. Open any ice shelf for its full profile.

Americas (8) Antarctica (45)

Americas (8 ice shelves)

Antarctica (45 ice shelves)

Coordinates are approximate locations. Descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached on our server. Data sourced from Wikidata. Related: Mountains · Lakes · Islands · World Heritage.