Wilkins Ice Shelf, 1994–2015

Overview map of Wilkins Ice Shelf (a): ice-front positions of the years 1994 (yellow) and 2008 (green) as well as the situation in 2015 (background map from Sentinel-1A) are shown. The ‘ice bridge’ between Charcot and Latady islands in its shape from April 2008 – before break-up – is also shown. The lower part of the figure shows a close-up of fracture formation on the southwestern ice front (b) as detected between 2011 and 2015 from radars on Envisat, Sentinel-1A and TanDEM-X missions.