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Amery Ice Shelf

American  
[ey-muh-ree] / ˈeɪ mə ri /

noun

  1. an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the SW Indian Ocean, bordered by Enderby Land on the N and American Highland on the W.


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In contrast, the Amery Ice Shelf -- on the other side of Antarctica -- gained 1.2 trillion tonnes of ice.

From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2023

The first picture captures the definitive and distinctive outline of the berg in the days immediately after it broke from the edge of Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2022

As a graduate student in the 2000s, she was tasked with studying those cracks in the Amery Ice Shelf.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2022

A satellite image of the D-28 iceberg breaking off the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica.

From Nature • Oct. 8, 2019

A gigantic iceberg has calved from the Amery Ice Shelf in East #Antarctica.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2019

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