Ice Cave near crater rim of Mt Erebus Ross Island Antarctica Postcard

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Ice Cave near crater rim of Mt Erebus Ross Island Antarctica Postcard

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Ice cave near crater rim of Mount Erebus Ross Island Antarctica 1995
4.75 inches X 6.25 inches
From the Galen Roles Poles Apart: Postcards From the End of the Earth.

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  • Ice cave near crater rim of Mount Erebus Ross Island Antarctica 
  • 4.75 inches X 6.25 inches
  • From the Galen Roles Poles Apart: Postcards From the End of the Earth.

The Erebus glacier in Antarctica comes down from Mt. Erebus (12,447 ft)  and protrudes off the coast of Ross Island, forming an 11-12 km long ice tongue - a long and narrow sheet of ice projecting out from the coastline. The Erebus Ice Tongue is the serrated, blue-rimmed "knife" extending toward image center from the upper right out into snow- and ice-covered McMurdo Sound. Beneath the smooth white expanse is the Southern Ocean.

An ice tongue forms when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into the sea or a lake. When the sea ice in McMurdo sound thaws in the summer, the ice tongue floats on the water without thawing. It also calves off in places forming icebergs. The Erebus Ice Tongue is only about 10 meters high, so its icebergs are small. When the ice around the tongue melts in the summer, waves of sea water constantly batter the edges of the tongue, carving very elaborate structures in the ice, sometimes producing deep caves at the margins. In the winter, the sea freezes once more around these new shapes.

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