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Bookmark or Share- The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Seems to Be Good at CollapsingScientists have discovered that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet underwent a major retreat between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, at a time when the world was actually cooler than it is today.
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet - WikipediaThe West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains that lies in the Western Hemisphere.
- Notes from the Field - East and West: The Geography of AntarcticaIn the most general terms, Antarctica can be divided into three major areas: West Antarctica, East Antarctica, and the Antarctic Peninsula. An overview map of Antarctica produced by the British Antarctic Survey to accompany the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, or LIMA.
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet - AntarcticGlaciers.orgWest Antarctica is approximately 97% ice-covered, and is 1.97 x 10 6 km 2 in area. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the Bellingshausen, Weddell, Amundsen and Ross seas.
- West Antarctica – Travel guide at WikivoyageWest Antarctica is the part of Antarctica that falls in the Western Hemisphere, west of the arbitrary line of 0° longitude on the South America-facing side down to the South Pole then 180° is the line on the Australia-facing side. It's mostly a high, even plateau with an intensely cold dry climate and no wildlife, not even tundra.
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