Earth:Venable Ice Shelf

Short description: Ice shelf in Antarctica

Venable Ice Shelf is an ice shelf, 40 miles (60 km) long and 15 miles (24 km) wide, between Fletcher and Allison Peninsulas, Ellsworth Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–66, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Cdm. J. D. Venable, U.S. Navy, Ships Operations Officer, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1967 and 1968.

Further reading

• Zhang, X. , Thompson, A. , Flexas, M. and Bornemann, H. (2014), Evidence of ice shelf melt in the Bellingshausen Sea from seal-borne observations, 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 23 February 2014 - 28 February 2014

External links

• Venable Ice Shelf on USGS website
• Venable Ice Shelf on AADC website
• Venable Ice Shelf on SCAR website

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Venable Ice Shelf" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).