Amery Ice Shelf

[ ey-muh-ree ]

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.

Example Sentences

Even though it's lost about a third of its area since calving from Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf in 2019, D28 has managed to maintain its basic, compact shape.

From BBC

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

From Science Daily

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

From BBC

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

At that time I was reporting research on the Amery Ice Shelf that sought to predict which part of this vast, floating wedge of ice might break first, and when.

From BBC