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From the Wikipedia entry: here is a list of the ice shelves, listed clockwise, starting in the West of East Antarctica. An ice sheet is included in the list:

"Filchner Ice Shelf

"Brunt Ice Shelf

"Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf

"Quar Ice Shelf

"Ekstrom Ice Shelf

"Jelbart Ice Shelf

"Fimbul Ice Shelf

"Lazarev Ice Shelf

"King Baudouin Ice Shelf

"Hannan Ice Shelf

"Zubchatyy Ice Shelf

"Wyers Ice Shelf

"Edward VIII Ice Shelf

"Amery Ice Shelf

"Publications Ice Shelf

"West Ice Shelf

"Shackleton Ice Shelf

"Moscow University Ice Shelf

"Voyeykov Ice Shelf

"Cook Ice Shelf

"Slava Ice Shelf

"Gillett Ice Shelf

"Nansen Ice Sheet

"McMurdo Ice Shelf

"Ross Ice Shelf

"Swinburne Ice Shelf

"Sulzberger Ice Shelf

"Nickerson Ice Shelf

"Getz Ice Shelf

"Dotson Ice Shelf

"Crosson Ice Shelf

"Cosgrove Ice Shelf

"Abbot Ice Shelf

"Venable Ice Shelf

"Stange Ice Shelf

"Bach Ice Shelf

"George VI Ice Shelf

"Wilkins Ice Shelf

"Wordie Ice Shelf

"Jones Ice Shelf

"Müller Ice Shelf

"Prince Gustav Ice Shelf

"Larsen Ice Shelf (Larsen A and B)

"Ronne Ice Shelf"

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The two largest ice shelves at Antarctica are the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ronnie Ice Shelf. The Antarctic Ice Sheet consists of about 13.72 million sq km of permanent ice representing 90% of the world's ice.

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There are many ice shelves on Antarctica, but two are prominent: the Ross Ice shelf, which is about the size of France, and the Larson Ice Shelf, which is apparently deteriorating from underneath because of warmer ocean waters in which it floats

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The Antarctic ice shelves include:

  • Ellsworth
  • Bently
  • Filichner-Ronne
  • Larsen
  • Erebus
  • Ross
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The Ross ice shelf and the Ronne ice shelf are the two biggest in Antarctica.

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ross and larsen are two of the ice shelves they are both named after explorers

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The Ross Ice Shelf and the Ronne-Flichner Ice Shelf are the two largest remaining attached to Antarctica.

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the ross ice shelf

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