Neil Young, an Australian Antarctic division glaciologist, said: "The iceberg is likely to be part of one of the big ones that calved from the Ross ice shelf nearly a decade ago.

澳大利亚南极署冰河学家尼尔·杨说，“这座冰山可能是约十年以前从罗斯冰架上碎裂脱落下来的大冰山的一部分。

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More than 180 kilometers [112 miles] long, the glacier flows down from the polar plateau (left) to the Ross Ice Shelf (right).

它超过180公里(112英里)长，从极地高原(图的左边)一直流到罗斯冰架(图的右边)。

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By the time the Marsh joins the immense Nimrod Glacier, some 35 miles from our camp, the ice is on a rapid charge to the Ross Sea ice Shelf.

待马什冰川汇合入庞大的尼姆罗德冰川后(距我们的营地约35英里处)，冰层快速冲向罗斯冰架。

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In eighteen forty-one, the British navy officer James Ross discovered areas now called the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.

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Some points of interest will include McMurdo Sound, the Ross Ice Shelf, the Mertz and Ninnis Glaciers and Mount Erebus.

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