West Antarctica

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part of Antarctica region

West Antarctica is the portion of the Antarctic continent lying mostly west of the Transantarctic Mountains, known for its marine-based ice sheet that is particularly vulnerable to climate change and potential sea-level rise.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
West Antarctic Ice Sheet 3
Ronne Ice Shelf 1
West Antarctic plate region 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf part of Antarctica ⓘ
region ⓘ
adjacentTo East Antarctica ⓘ
borderedBySea Amundsen Sea ⓘ
Amundsen Sea ⓘ
surface form: Bellingshausen Sea

Ross Sea ⓘ
boundedBy Transantarctic Mountains ⓘ
containsGlacier Kohler Glacier ⓘ
Pine Island Glacier ⓘ
Smith Glacier ⓘ
Thwaites Glacier ⓘ
containsIceShelf Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf ⓘ
surface form: Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf

Dotson Ice Shelf ⓘ
surface form: Getz Ice Shelf

Pine Island Glacier ⓘ
surface form: Pine Island Glacier ice shelf

Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf ⓘ
surface form: Ronne Ice Shelf

Ross Ice Shelf ⓘ
containsMountainRange Ellsworth Mountains ⓘ
Executive Committee Range ⓘ
continentPartOf Antarctica ⓘ
experiences ice mass loss ⓘ
ice shelf thinning ⓘ
hasBedTopography mostly below sea level ⓘ
hasCrustType thinned continental crust ⓘ
hasGeologicalFeature West Antarctic Rift System ⓘ
hasHighestPoint Vinson Massif ⓘ
surface form: Mount Vinson
hasIceSheet West Antarctica self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: West Antarctic Ice Sheet
hasIceSheetType marine-based ice sheet ⓘ
hasPart Amundsen Sea ⓘ
surface form: Amundsen Sea sector

Antarctic Peninsula ⓘ
Ellsworth Land ⓘ
Marie Byrd Land coast ⓘ
surface form: Marie Byrd Land

Ross Sea ⓘ
surface form: Ross Sea sector
highestPointElevation 4892 metres ⓘ
iceMassLossContributesTo global mean sea level ⓘ
iceSheetGroundingLine below sea level ⓘ
isMonitoredBy GPS networks ⓘ
satellite altimetry ⓘ
satellite gravimetry ⓘ
isSubjectOf ice-sheet stability research ⓘ
sea-level rise projections ⓘ
isVulnerableTo climate change ⓘ
global warming ⓘ
ice-sheet instability ⓘ
liesMostlyWestOf Transantarctic Mountains ⓘ
locatedInHemisphere Southern Hemisphere ⓘ
locatedInOcean Southern Ocean ⓘ
locatedOnContinent Antarctica ⓘ
separatedFrom East Antarctica by Transantarctic Mountains ⓘ
threatens global sea-level rise ⓘ
underlainBy West Antarctic Rift System ⓘ

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

this entity surface form: West Antarctic Ice Sheet
West Antarctica → hasIceSheet → West Antarctica self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Antarctica → hasRegion → West Antarctica ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ronne Ice Shelf
Amundsen Sea → locatedIn → West Antarctica ⓘ
Graham Land → locatedIn → West Antarctica ⓘ
Vinson Massif → locatedIn → West Antarctica ⓘ
this entity surface form: Western Antarctica
West Antarctic Rift System → locatedIn → West Antarctica ⓘ
Almirante Brown Station → locatedInRegion → West Antarctica ⓘ
Antarctic Peninsula → partOf → West Antarctica ⓘ
West Antarctic Rift System → partOf → West Antarctica ⓘ
this entity surface form: West Antarctic plate region
Amundsen Sea → partOfIceSheetSystem → West Antarctica ⓘ
this entity surface form: West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Base Naval Arturo Prat → region → West Antarctica ⓘ
Brown Base → region → West Antarctica ⓘ
Great Wall Station → region → West Antarctica ⓘ
Mount Foster → region → West Antarctica ⓘ