The Ronne Ice Shelf
Geographical Features
The seaward side of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf is divided into Eastern and the larger Western sections by Berkner Island. The whole ice shelf covers around 430,000 km², making it the second largest ice shelf in Antarctica, after the Ross Ice Shelf. It grows perpetually due to a flow of inland ice sheets. From time to time, when the shearing stresses exceed the strength of the ice, cracks form and large parts of the ice sheet separate from the ice shelf and continue as icebergs. It is located 77.8592° S, 61.2992° W geographical. It being a side of a big ice-land it is not formed by anything ,other than slowing bits of its shelf falling off , as said before to create icebergs. |