
Muller Ice Shelf, also known as ''Müller Ice Shelf'' according to the original German spelling of the family name ''Müller'', () was an
ice shelf
An ice shelf is a large platform of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by one or multiple tributary glaciers. Ice shelves form along coastlines where the ice thickness is insufficient to displace the more dense surrounding ocean water. T ...
lying southwest of
Hooke Point in southwest
Lallemand Fjord
The Lallemand Fjord () is a fjord located east of Arrowsmith Peninsula and west of Pernik Peninsula on Loubet Coast on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. It begins at Sharp Glacier and runs over 48 km roughly south to no ...
,
Arrowsmith Peninsula
Arrowsmith Peninsula () is a cape about long on the west coast of Graham Land, west of Forel Glacier, Sharp Glacier and Lallemand Fjord, and northwest of Bourgeois Fjord, with Hanusse Bay lying to the northwest. It was surveyed by the Falklan ...
,
Loubet Coast
Loubet Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 158 km between Cape Bellue to the northeast and Bourgeois Fjord to the southwest. South of Loubet Coast is Fallières Coast, north is Graham Coa ...
. It was nurtured by
Brückner Glacier
Brückner Glacier () is a glacier flowing northeast on Arrowsmith Peninsula to Muller Ice Shelf in the southwest part of Lallemand Fjord, Loubet Coast. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and air photos, 1956� ...
and
Antevs Glacier
Antevs Glacier (), also known as North Heim Glacier, is a glacier on Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, flowing north between Seue Peaks and Boyle Mountains into Muller Ice Shelf, Lallemand Fjord. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Pl ...
.
It collapsed "recently" (as at late March 2008).
The name was given by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
(UK-APC) in 1981 in memory of
Fritz Muller (1926–80), a Swiss glaciologist, who carried out research in Switzerland, Greenland, the
Canadian Arctic
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, and the Himalayas.
References
Ice shelves of Antarctica
Loubet Coast
Bodies of ice of Graham Land
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