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Icebreakers sail into Antarctic waters as the sea ice begins to melt in the springtime. Generally, as the sea ice melts, it breaks apart forming leads of open water.
An icebreaker will follow leads until there is no more open water, then turn on its ice-breaking mechanisms to essentially chew up enough ice to allow the ship to continue to sail forward.
These mechanisms are like grinders with blades that rotate perpendicular to the level of the open water. The blade systems are mounted in both sides of the bows of icebreakers.
An exact measurement of 'how much ice' is involved varies depending on the sea ice, the icebreaker, its origin and its destination.
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Why take an icebreaker ship to Antarctica?
Taking an icebreaker ship to Antarctica is an advantage. You have a quick form of transport, and if you get stuck in ice, the icebreaker part of the ship is there to help!
What is the transportation in Antarctica?
Skiddo or ship with ice smasher on front!
The depth of the shelf break is surprisingly constant worldwide but is much deeper on antarctica and Greenland due to?
The weight of the ice.
What is the name of a ship that can make a path through the thick pack ice of Antarctica?
An ice-breaker.
Which sheets of ice break off the edge of Antarctica?
IceFlows.
Famous ship that was trapped in ice in the south Atlantic near antarctica?
the discovery
How much more ice has the arctic over Antarctica?
There is much more ice covering Antarctica -- about 90% of the earth's store of ice -- than in the Arctic.
What are the sheets of ice called that break off of antarctica?
These are called icebergs.
How much of Antarctica is solid ice?
Antarctica is 100% land. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent is solid ice.
How much ice is in the Antarctic?
98% of Antarctica is covered in ice
How much of Antarctica's ice is sealed in ice caps?
99%
How much worlds ice is in Antarctica?
although it is one of the biggest deserts, antarctica holds 90% of the worlds ice!
