Larsen Ice Shelf

[ lahr-suhn ]

noun

1. an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the NW Weddell Sea, on the E coast of the Antarctic Peninsula: first explored 1893.

Example Sentences

“And then 2002, boom! Larsen Ice Shelf collapses, and we’re all like, ‘What just happened?’”

From Scientific American

He's the artist who drew "The Infamous 18 Golf Holes" that were published first in Golf Digest starting in 1975—holes perched on Iguazu Falls in South America, in California's redwood forest, in the Alps of Switzerland, in the Fujiyama Gardens of Japan, on the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica, and more.

From Golf Digest

It mashed into the side of the Larsen ice shelf a handful of times in the past year, Hogg said, including incidents in May and June of this year that splintered off several smaller bergs.

From Scientific American

This persistent clockwise drift of ocean waters and floating sea-ice flowing north past the Larsen Ice Shelf has rotated A-68 out into the Weddell Sea.

From BBC

A-68 will need to be well clear of the Larsen Ice Shelf from which it calved, and any marine floes on top of the water will have to be sufficiently thin to allow the JCR access.

From BBC