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What Lies Beneath an Ice Shelf

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By Yingpu Xiahou, Craig Stevens, Christina Hulbe
| egu.eu
Hot-water drilling operations at the HWD2 site on the central Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, where a borehole was created to access the ocean beneath the ice. [Credit: Craig Stevens/ESNZ] Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf lies a hidden ocean—dark, cold, and almost impossible to reach. Scientists drilled through hundreds of metres of ice to access it, revealing a world that plays a crucial role in how ice shelves melt.
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Beneath Antarctica's largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

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By Craig Stevens Verified, Christina Hulbe, Yingpu Xiahou, Gaby Clark Verified
| Phys.org Verified
Schematic representation of circulation processes in the central RIS cavity. Credit: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (2026). DOI: 10.1029/2025jc023511 Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea. This hidden ocean matters because it is the ice sheet's Achilles' heel.
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Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

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By Craig Stevens, Christina Hulbe, Yingpu Xiahou
| The Conversation Verified
Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea. This hidden ocean matters because it is the ice sheet’s Achilles heel. The ice sheet is the continent’s enormous, kilometres-thick mass of land-based ice, while the ice shelf is the floating platform that fringes it.
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