Antarcticglaciers.org Website Review

Antarctic glaciers are beautiful and awe-inspiring. They affect us through their connections with the ocean and sea level Antarctica is the world’s largest ice sheet, covering ~14,000,000 km2. Much of the Antarctic ice sheet surface lies above 3000 m above sea level. This mas*ive thickness of ice drowns whole mountain ranges, and numerous volcanoes largest continent, and it is, on average, the highest and coldest continent. Antarctica provides a unique record of the Earth’s past climate, through the geomorphological record of glacier moraines Antarctica is covered by ice (~98%), with ice-free areas on, for example, nunataks (high mountains poking through the ice sheet), James Ross Island and Alexander Island on the Antarctic Peninsula, and the McMurdo Dry Valleys in East Antarctica. to climate change; they can thin, accelerate, recede, or even stop flowing entirely. Beneath the thick skin of ice, there is flowing floating outlet glaciers. The Antarctic Ice Sheet contains 25,400,000 km3 of ice, which, if it melted, would be equivalent to a sea level ever recorded on Earth was at Vostok: -89.2°C on 21st July 1983. The Dry Valleys of Antarctica This website aims to introduce some key concepts in Antarctic glaciology and glacial landscapes and systems more broadly. These 1. Lythe, M.B., Vaughan, D.G., and the BEDMAP Consortium. 2001. BEDMAP: a new ice thickness and subglacial topographical model of to our Fellowship Programme 2019 are now open! ----- From today until the 3rd February 2019, apply to becom… 09:56:51 PM December 10, 2018 Glacier, Chile exhibits a high calving rate in 2018 Sentinel images. Including calving a narrow to*gue of ice… 07:17:10 PM December 04,