Julius Garbe @juliusgarbe.github.io · Jun 26

No, not really. In the figure below the continental shelf edge can be seen as the sharp transition between light and dark blue off the coast of the continents. The grounding line is the black line (in the case of Antarctica, the inner of the two).

3 likes 1 replies

?

Replies

Julius Garbe · Jun 26

In Queen Maud Land / Antarctica (at the top of the right panel) they are "relatively" close in places, but even there the distance is still many kilometers wide (note map scale).