West Ice Shelf [SEP] continent
West Ice Shelf
The West Ice Shelf is a prominent ice shelf extending about in an east-west direction along the Leopold and Astrid Coast in East Antarctica between Barrier Bay and Posadowsky Bay. It was discovered and named by the First German Antarctica Expedition, 1901–1903, under Dr. Erich von Drygalski. The toponym describes the direction in which the German expedition first viewed the ice shelf. Their limited westward view became a prolonged one; on February 21, 1902, the ship became stuck in the ice. It remained there imprisoned
Shelf
Shelf may refer to:
- Shelf (storage), a flat horizontal surface used for display and storage
Geology.
- Continental shelf, the extended perimeter of a continent, usually covered by shallow seas
- Ice shelf, a thick platform of ice floating on the ocean surface
Places and entities.
- Shelf, West Yorkshire, a village in England
- Shelf corporation, a company or corporation that has had no activity
- Shelf (organization), a UK health services organisation