Several rivers of the West Antarctica ice sheet flow into the ice shelf.

南极洲西部几条河流中的冰块漂流到冰架。

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East Antarctica is colder than West Antarctica because of its higher elevation.

南极洲东部由于海拔较高，比南极洲西部寒冷。

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The B9 iceberg broke from the Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica some time in 1987.

B9冰山是在1987年从西南级大陆的罗斯冰架断裂而形成的。

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That's a potential concern of the enhanced melt in west Antarctica if the warming trend we find in summer continues.

BBC: West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate

This is evident, for example, in the rapid thinning seen of late in the mighty Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica.

BBC: Antarctic ice volume measured

There are also proposals to explore and sample Lake Ellsworth in west Antarctica by a team involving 14 UK universities and research institutions, plus scientists from Chile, the US, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and New Zealand.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Secret rivers found in Antarctic