Ekström Ice Shelf

- 70.65 - 8.25Koordinaten: 70 ° 39 '0 "S, 8 ° 15 ' 0 " W

Ekström Ice Shelf ( the official naming convention for geographic areas in the Antarctic following: Ekströmisen ) is a 8700 km ² large floating part of the Antarctic ice sheet between the Søråsen Ridge and the Halvfarryggen back at the Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud country, and is attributable to the Saumschelfeisen.

The 1949-1952 charted during the Norwegian - British - Swedish Antarctic Expedition area is named after the Swedish engineer Bertil Ekström ( 1919-1951 ) named, crashed on the edge of the westerly quarter Ice Shelf on 24 February 1951. The 160 -meter-high ice edge extends 15 feet above the sea beyond. On the Ekström Ice Shelf located in the northeast of the German Neumayer Station II and opened in February 2009, Neumayer Station III.