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McMurdo Ice Shelf

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on the south. Studies show this feature has characteristics quite distinct from the Ross Ice Shelf and merits individual naming. A.J. Heine, who made investigations in 1962–63, suggested the name for the ice shelf bounded by Ross Island,
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In March 2010, while scientists were taking photographs of the underside of the ice shelf, they discovered a living
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has extended the application of this name to include the contiguous ice shelf southward to Minna Bluff.
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Scott Base
McMurdo Station
Ross Ice Shelf
McMurdo Sound
Ross Island
Minna Bluff
Brown Peninsula
Black Island
White Island
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Lysianassidae
amphipod
"McMurdo Ice Shelf"
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United States Department of the Interior
"NASA discovers life hidden 600 feet below Antarctic ice"
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"McMurdo Ice Shelf"
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Ross Island
Discovery Hut
Lower Erebus Hut

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