Ekström Ice Shelf
The Ekström Ice Shelf is the ice shelf lying between Sorasen Ridge and Halvfarryggen Ridge, on the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land. It was first mapped by the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition, and named for Bertil Ekström, a Swedish mechanical engineer with the NBSAE, who drowned when the weasel he was driving plunged over the edge of Quar Ice Shelf on February 24, 1951.Photo: Hgrobe, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Water
- Description: ice shelf in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Ekstroemisen” and “Ekstrom Ice Shelf”
Ekström Ice Shelf
- Categories: ice shelf and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Swedish—“Ekström Ice Shelf” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Ekströmova ledena ploča”
- Bulgarian: “Екстрьомисен”
- Bulgarian: “Шелфов лед Екстрьом”
- Bulgarian: “Шелфов лед Екстьром”
- Chinese: “埃克斯特倫冰架”
- Dutch: “Ekström-ijsplateau”
- Esperanto: “Glaciplatformo Ekström”
- German: “Ekström-Schelfeis”
- German: “Ekströmisen”
- Italian: “Piattaforma di ghiaccio Ekström”
- Latvian: “Ekstrēma šelfa ledājs”
- Latvian: “Ēkstrema šelfa ledājs”
- Latvian: “Ekström”
- Macedonian: “Екстремова Ледена Плоча”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ekströmisen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ekströmisen”
- Norwegian: “Ekströmisen”
- Swedish: “Ekströms shelfis”
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