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ice shelf

floating platform of ice on the ocean surface, at outlet of a glacier or ice sheet
Class type of: glacier Q46966
ice shelf
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Facts

5 properties
Subclass of
glacier
Described by source
Antarctica: The Melting Continent[2]
Different from
shelf ice, drift ice, ice cap, ice sheet, iceberg, ice floe[3][4][5][6][7][8]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[10]
Studied by
glaciology[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en shelf ice en ice shelf ar جرف جليدي ar رصيف جليدي ar لوح جليد ar الجرف الجليدي ar الرصيف الجليدي cs šelfový ledovec da Shelfis da Isshelf de Eisschelf de Schelfeis el Τράπεζα Πάγου es plataforma de hielo es Barrera de hielo es Meseta de hielo fa یخ‌تاق fi jäähylly fi jäätikköhylly fi lauttajäätikkö
🔖 Identifiers · 19
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh2009008343
GND ID
4129787-8
OpenAlex ID
C87547467
A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID
4118
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/11982
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/ice-shelf
Environment Ontology ID
00000380
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org
Freebase ID
/m/01yczd
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
isbrem, is-shelf
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
shel-fovyi-lednik-61146a
J9U entity ID
987007552470405171
Show all 19 identifiers +7
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
ice-shelves
Lex ID
isshelf
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
87547467
Quora topic ID
Ice-Shelf
Topic's main category
Category:Ice shelves
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09455067-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/065186d7-7070-4354-83e3-f0383a7461f0

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🔗 Connections
Examples 46
Ross Ice Shelf, Larsen Ice Shelf, Shackleton Ice Shelf, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Thwaites Glacier, West Ice Shelf, Amery Ice Shelf, Brunt Ice Shelf +38 more
Different from 5
iceberg, ice sheet, ice cap, drift ice, ice floe
← Different from 4
iceberg, ice sheet, drift ice, ice floe
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Studied by 1
glaciology
Subclass of 1
glacier
Topic's main category 1
Category:Ice shelves
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Ice shelves
← Is the study of 1
glaciology
← SNARC ID 1
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
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Summary

ice shelf is a type of glacier[1].

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID → isbrem, is-shelf
    Different from → shelf ice, drift ice, ice cap +3
    Topic's main category → Category:Ice shelves
    Subclass of → glacier
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007552470405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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