Follow up to a post from earlier..some one posted an article earlier

[madmom]

today about the fear that this ice bridge would collapse...well it looks like it did.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/science/earth/05antarctica.html?_r=1




"It’s amazing how the ice has ruptured,” said David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey. “Two days ago it was intact,” he said, referring to a satellite image of the Wilkins ice shelf.

The satellite picture, by the European Space Agency, showed that a strip of ice about 25 miles long that is believed to pin the ice shelf in place had snapped.

The loss of the ice bridge could mean a wider breakup of the ice shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut."

[pscot]

1. Google earth shows the ice shelf

as it was. The link below shows the current situation. In google earth, search Wilkens Ice Shelf. The contrast between the two images is amazing. That ice was more than 60 feet thick in places.
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5326HO20090404