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ice shelf

floating platform of ice on the ocean surface, at outlet of a glacier or ice sheet
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ice shelf

Summary

ice shelf ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (430 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ice shelf is a type of glacier[2].
  • ice shelf's Commons category is recorded as Ice shelves[3].
  • ice shelf's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ice shelves[4].
  • ice shelf's Commons gallery is recorded as Ice shelf[5].
  • ice shelf's described by source is recorded as Antarctica: The Melting Continent[6].
  • ice shelf's different from is recorded as shelf ice[7].
  • ice shelf's different from is recorded as drift ice[8].
  • ice shelf's different from is recorded as ice cap[9].
  • ice shelf's different from is recorded as ice sheet[10].
  • ice shelf's different from is recorded as iceberg[11].
  • ice shelf's different from is recorded as ice floe[12].
  • ice shelf's studied by is recorded as glaciology[13].
  • ice shelf's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000380[14].
  • ice shelf's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15].

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Definition and Type

ice shelf is a type of glacier[2].

Why It Matters

ice shelf ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (430 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → isbrem
    Different from → shelf ice, drift ice, ice cap +3
    Local thumb → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007552470405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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