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  2. Mermaids in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Ice Age: Continental Drift: 2012: In the cases of Sid the Sloth and Captain Gutt, the fishlike creatures called sirens shapeshift into a mermaid-themed sloth (mersloth) and a mermaid-themed ape (merape) and near the end of the film, the latter traumatizes the tyrant ape by eating him. The Legend of Sarila: 2013: Features a mermaid-like goddess ...

  3. Ice wall - Wikipedia

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    Ice wall is the edge of an ice shelf. It may also refer to: Antarctica, believed by flat Earthers to be the edge of the world; IceWall SSO, a Web and Federated single ...

  4. Ross Ice Shelf - Wikipedia

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    It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 kilometres (370 mi) long, and between 15 and 50 metres (50 and 160 ft) high above the water surface. [3] Ninety percent of the floating ice, however, is below the water surface. Most of the Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New ...

  5. Ice-marginal lava flow - Wikipedia

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    The Barrier, a typical ice-marginal lava flow in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. An ice-marginal lava flow is a lava flow that comes into direct contact with a glacier or the margins of a large ice sheet. As the lava reaches the margins of an ice sheet, the front of the lava flow cools very quickly to form ...

  6. Ice shelf - Wikipedia

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    Some named Antarctic iceshelves. Ice shelf extending approximately 6 miles into the Antarctic Sound from Joinville Island. An ice shelf is "a floating slab of ice originating from land of considerable thickness extending from the coast (usually of great horizontal extent with a very gently sloping surface), resulting from the flow of ice sheets, initially formed by the accumulation of snow ...

  7. Larsen Ice Shelf - Wikipedia

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    The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula [1] from Cape Longing to Smith Peninsula. It is named after Captain Carl Anton Larsen , the master of the Norwegian whaling vessel Jason , who sailed along the ice front as far as 68°10' South during ...

  8. Southern Cross Expedition - Wikipedia

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    Expedition commander Carsten Borchgrevink taking a theodolite reading in front of the Southern Cross, 1899. The Southern Cross Expedition, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and the forerunner of the more celebrated journeys of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.

  9. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks - Wikipedia

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    Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is a 1980 adventure module for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game written by Gary Gygax. While Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D ) is typically a fantasy game, the adventure includes elements of science fiction , and thus belongs to the science fantasy genre. [ 1 ]