Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
- Ross Ice Shelf ( 472,960 km ²)
- Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf ( 422,420 km ²)
- Amery Ice Shelf ( 62,620 km ²)
- Larsen C ( 48,600 km ²)
- Riiser -Larsen Ice Shelf ( 48,180 km ²)
- Fimbul ( 41,060 km ²)
- Shackleton Ice Shelf ( 33,820 km ²)
- George VI ( 23,880 km ²)
- West ( 16,370 km ²)
- Wilkins Ice Shelf ( 13,680 km ²)
The Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf is on the Ross Ice Shelf is the second largest permanent ice sheet in Antarctica. The double name derives from the German geographer and expedition leader Wilhelm Filchner (1877-1957) from, who discovered the eastern part of the ice shelf in his expedition in 1911, and the U.S. engineer Finn Ronne ( 1899-1980 ), the western part of an expedition in 1947 after his wife Edith Ronne named.
The 449,000 km ² ice shelf covered a large bay of the Weddell Sea and the south by the Ellsworthland, on the west by the Palmer Land of the Antarctic Peninsula ( Zumberge Coast and Orville Coast) and to the east by the Prince Regent Luitpold country with the Argentine Belgrano II station limits. Southeast is the Queen Elizabeth country that is part of the British Antarctic Territory.
The Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf is often referred to as two separate ice shelves - presented whose separator is enclosed therein Berkner Island, where the boundaries of the individual ice shelves are not exactly set - Filchner and Ronne Ice Shelf. Are trapped by the ice of the ice shelf next to the Berkner Island yet another larger island, Guest Iceland, as well as two major Ice- Rises, Korff Ice Rise and Henry Ice Rise.
The Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf is on its escarpment to the sea, only 200 meters thick. In the region in which the ice slides into the sea, but it is up to 1500 meters high.
From 1982 to 1999 was on the ice shelf, the German Filchner summer station. In the fall of 1998, triggered A- 38, a 150 x 35 km large chunk of the ice shelf, which used to contain the station. Then, the station was recovered and loaded on 13 February 1999, the research vessel Polarstern.