George VI Sound

George VI Ice Shelf, occupying the sound between the English coast of the southern Antarctic Peninsula and Alexander Island. This study highlights the importance of this ice shelf for regulating the flow of inland ice in the southern peninsula, and therefore for global sea-level rise.

Credit: British Antarctic Survey

• New study puts a figure on sea-level rise following Antarctic ice shelves’ collapse (19 July 2018)

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