Getz Ice Shelf is an World map showing location of Antarctica A satellite composite image of Antarctica For the Kim Stanley Robinson novel see Antarctica (novel) Antarctica (from Greek ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earths South Pole. It is the... Antarctic An ice shelf is a thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface, typically in Antarctica, Greenland, and elsewhere in the Arctic. The boundary between floating ice shelf and the grounded (resting on bedrock) ice... ice shelf, over 480 km (300 mi) long and from 32 to 96 km (20 to 60 mi) wide, bordering the Hobbs and Bakutis Coasts of Map of Antarctica Marie Byrd Land is the portion of Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. The inclusion of the area... Marie Byrd Land between McDonald Heights and Martin Peninsula. Several large islands are partially or wholly embedded in the ice shelf.

The ice shelf westward of Location of Siple Island Siple Island is a massive, snow-covered island, 110 km long, lying E of Wrigley Gulf along the Getz Ice Shelf off the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Its centre lies at coordinates 73°39 S, 125° 00 W. Its area is about 6,500... Siple Island was discovered by the USAS in December 1940. The portion eastward of Siple Island was first delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump was a United States Navy operation in Antarctica from 1946-47, the largest effort in the southmost continent to this day. Admiral Richard E. Byrds fleet was made up of 4,700 men serving on the following ships: 1 Aircraft carrier, newly commissioned (Philippine Sea - deck full... Operation Highjump, 1946-47. The entire feature was mapped by the USGS from U.S. Navy air photos of 1962-65. Named by the USAS (1939-41) for George F. Getz of Chicagos skyline at day Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 US Census. It is the fourth largest city in North America and the seventh largest in... Chicago, Illinois, who helped furnish the seaplane for the expedition.