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Ice sheet

A mass of ice and snow of considerable thickness, defined as covering an area of more than 50,000 square kilometres.

The edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in Princess Elizabeth Land, marked by an ice cliff abutting sea ice at left and bedrock lower. Photo M. J. Hambrey, 1994.

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