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Larsen Ice Shelf ndi yayitali ayisi shelufu mu Nyanja ya Weddell, yopitilira kugombe lakum'mawa kwa Antarctic Peninsula. Amatchedwa dzina la wofufuza wa ku Norway Carl Anton Larsen, yemwe anayenda pamphepete mwa madzi oundana mu 1893. Wopangidwa ndi mashelufu angapo m'mphepete mwa nyanja, otchulidwa ndi zilembo zochokera ku A kupita ku G, kuyambira pakati pa zaka za m'ma 1990 Larsen Ice Shelf. yakhala ikusweka, ndi kugwa kwa Larsen B mu 2002 kukhala kochititsa chidwi kwambiri. Gawo lalikulu la shelufu ya Larsen C linasweka mu Julayi 2017 kuti lipange madzi oundana omwe amadziwika kuti A-68. Dera lonse la Larsen Ice Shelf poyamba linali 33,000 square miles (85,000 km2), koma lero ndi 26,000 square miles (67,000 km2).
Kujambula: NASA/John Sonntag