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November 2015 J & D

The Tabular Ice Shelf

Antarctic Peninsula

The morning landing at the animal-rich Brown Bluff is cancelled
when very strong Katabatic winds came up. These winds are
similar to the Föhn winds we had in South Georgia and also
the Santa Ana winds we have in southern California.

Continuing towards the Antarctic Peninsula, we pass a huge
tabular ice shelf that originally was the size of Rhode Island.
All large icebergs are tracked and these grounded pieces of
14-year old Iceberg B15Y have resulted today in 26 pieces
each over 10 miles in length.


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Sandy 30-Dec-2015 03:34
The ice looks as if it would calve in giant sheets. Does it?