Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An area of shelf ice in western Antarctica south of the Weddell Sea.
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Examples
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The iceberg is one of several that split off in Antarctica in 2000 when parts of two major ice shelves — the Ross Sea Ice Shelf and Ronne Ice Shelf — fractured.
Giant Iceberg Still Heading for Australia (Satellite Images) | Universe Today 2009
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On the way she told me that a Japanese called Susumu Nakamura had skied from Hercules Inlet on the Ronne Ice Shelf.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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She announced her achievement from Hercules Inlet on Antarctica's Ronne Ice Shelf, where she waited alone in her tent for bad weather to clear so that a small plane could pick her up and take her to a base camp.
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She made it to her destination ahead of schedule, using nothing but her own strength to cover 1,084 miles 1,744 kilometers from her starting point on the Leverett Glacier on Nov. 25 to Hercules Inlet on the Ronne Ice Shelf.
USATODAY.com News 2012
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Her way out - skiing along the 80 West Longitude line to the company's base camp on Hercules Inlet on the Ronne Ice Shelf - would presumably be easier.
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Its edges flow out into floating ice shelves, including the huge Ross Ice Shelf and Ronne Ice Shelf.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2009
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Its edges flow out into floating ice shelves, including the huge Ross Ice Shelf and Ronne Ice Shelf.
innovations-report 2009
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Its edges flow out into floating ice shelves, including the huge Ross Ice Shelf and Ronne Ice Shelf.
The Sietch Blog 2009
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Its edges flow out into floating ice shelves, including the huge Ross Ice Shelf and Ronne Ice Shelf.
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Its edges flow out into floating ice shelves, including the huge Ross Ice Shelf and Ronne Ice Shelf.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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