Antarctic Ice Shelves
See also: List of Antarctic ice shelves
A total of 44 percent of the Antarctic coastline has ice shelves attached. Their aggregate area is 1,541,700 kmĀ² .
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“Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
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“The bells discuss the hours gradations,
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