Getz Ice Shelf
The Getz Ice Shelf is an ice shelf over 300 nautical miles long and from 20 to 60 nautical miles wide, bordering the Hobbs Coast and Bakutis Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, between the McDonald Heights and Martin Peninsula.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Water
- Description: ice shelf in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Barrière de Getz”, “Getz Ice Shelf, GIF”, “Plateforme de Getz”, and “Szelf Lodowy Getza”
Getz Ice Shelf
- Categories: ice shelf and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-74.25° or 74° 15′ south
Longitude
-126.5° or 126° 30′ west
Open location code
24QMQG22+22
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Getz Ice Shelf” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Getzova ledena ploča”
- Bulgarian: “Гец (шелфов ледник)”
- Bulgarian: “Гец”
- Catalan: “banc de glaç de Getz”
- Chinese: “蓋茨冰架”
- Esperanto: “Glaciplatformo Getz”
- French: “plateforme de glace de Getz”
- French: “Plateforme de glace de Getz”
- German: “Getz-Schelfeis”
- Hebrew: “מדף הקרח גץ”
- Hindi: “गेट्ज़ हिमचट्टान”
- Italian: “Piattaforma di ghiaccio Getz”
- Japanese: “ゲッツ棚氷”
- Macedonian: “Гецова Ледена Плоча”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Getzisen”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Szelfowy Getza”
- Russian: “Шельфовый ледник Гетца”
- Spanish: “Barrera de hielo Getz”
- Turkish: “Getz Buz Sahanlığı”
- Ukrainian: “Шельфовий льодовик Гетц”
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