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article image Ice melting fast below East Antarctica’s Shirase Glacier tongue – Digital Journal

Ice is melting at a surprisingly fast rate underneath the Shirase Glacier Tongue in East Antarctica due to the continuing influx of warm seawater into the Lützow-Holm Bay.

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August 25, 2020

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Ice is melting at a surprisingly fast rate underneath the Shirase Glacier Tongue in East Antarctica due to the continuing influx of warm seawater into the Lützow-Holm Bay.
The Shirase Glacier is a large glacier entering Havsbotn, the bay that forms the head of Lutzow-Holm Bay in Antarctica. The area occupied by this feature was first mapped as a bay and named Instefjorden (the innermost fjord) by the Lars Christensen Expedition (LCE) of 193637.
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