Ekstrom Ice Shelf
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Ekstrom Ice Shelf () is the ice shelf lying between Sorasen Ridge and Halvfarryggen Ridge, on Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land. It occupies an area of 8,700 km². It was first mapped by NBSAE, 1949-52, and named for Bertil Ekström, a Swedish mechanical engineer with NBSAE, who drowned when the weasel (track-driven vehicle) he was driving plunged over the edge of Quar Ice Shelf on February 24, 1951.
Ekstrom Ice Shelf is 160 meters thick at the edge, and rises 15 meters above the sea level. In the northeast, on Atka Bay, the German station Neumayer is located.
This article incorporates text from Ekstrom Ice Shelf, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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