Shackleton Ice Shelf

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The Shackleton Ice Shelf (English Shackleton Ice Shelf) is a large ice shelf at the Queen Mary Coast and the Knoxküste the Antarctic continent with a length of 384 km and an area of ​​33,820 km ². At the Shackleton Ice Shelf are some islands, of which the Mill Island and the Masson Island are the largest.

The ice shelf was discovered in 1840 during the United States Exploring Expedition ( USEE ) under the direction of Charles Wilkes, but only from 1911 to 1914 explored by the Australian scientists Douglas Mawson. This gave the Ice Shelf, the present name after Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. Only in 1955 a detailed mapping was undertaken on the basis of aerial photographs for the first time. The recordings were made in the years 1946/47, by the United States Navy as part of Operation High Jump. The Soviet Union took in 1956 before an independent cartography. It showed that extends the ice shelf in the east over the Scott Glacier addition to the 105th eastern longitude.