And when it encounters the ocean, it forms an ice tongue and this ice tongue is unstable and there's bits and pieces breaking off every now and then as this ice moves into the ocean.

The Erebus Glacier is an ice tongue that's around 11 to 12 kilometers (around 36,000 to 39,000 feet) long and flows down from Mount Erebus, Antarctica's second-highest volcano.

Scientists have developed a new AI technique using radar images from Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission, to reveal how the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue in West Antarctica is being damaged ...

In the distance is the ‘ice tongue’ of the glacier flowing into the fjord. Credit: Martin Jakobsson, CC BY-SA. × close The 10km wide Petermann Fjord in northern Greenland. The author ...