the worlds largest ice sheet is located at antarctica.
where is the worlds largest ice sheet located?
antarctica
the polar regions are among the main geographical focuses of bell's research. she has led, co-led, or coordinated nine major aero-geophysical expeditions to antarctica and greenland primarily investigating ice sheet dynamics and mass balance and continental dynamics with bearing on present and future climate. her polar research has led to a number of important scientific discoveries. she discovered a volcano beneath the west antarctic ice sheet as well as several large lakes locked beneath two miles of ice. during the international polar year, bell lead a major expedition the antarctica to explore the last unknown mountain range on earth the completely ice-covered gamburtsev mountains. her research in the gamburtsev mountains demonstrated that water hidden beneath the ice sheet runs uphill and that ice sheets can thicken from below, overturning long-held assumptions about ice sheets. bell also is the lead primary investigator on the rosetta-ice geophysical investigation of the ross ice shelf the continent's largest ice shelf.
robin bell (scientist)
it is the second largest ice body in the world, after the antarctic ice sheet. the ice sheet is almost long in a north-south direction, and its greatest width is at a latitude of 77°n, near its northern margin. the mean altitude of the ice is . the thickness is generally more than and over at its thickest point. in addition to the large ice sheet, isolated glaciers and small ice caps cover between around the periphery. if the entire of ice were to melt, it would lead to a global sea level rise of . at the current rate of thawing it will take over 14,000 years to completely melt the ice sheet. the greenland ice sheet is sometimes referred to under the term "inland ice", or its danish equivalent, "indlandsis". it is also sometimes referred to as an ice cap.
greenland ice sheet