[DOC] [TLE] Antarctica - Wikipedia [PAR] Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South 
Pole and is ... Antarctica is a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 
in) along the ... Ongoing experiments are conducted by more than 4,000 
scientists from .... About 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, a 
sheet of ice... [DOC] [TLE] West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Wikipedia [PAR] The Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice 
sheet that covers ... The result is a large, floating ice shelf affixed to the continent. 
... sector, and three glaciers in particular: the Pine Island, Thwaites and Smith 
Glaciers. ... The West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) has warmed by more than 0.1 C 
(0.18... [DOC] [TLE] Scientists Are Watching in Horror as Ice Collapses [PAR] Apr 12, 2016 ... That floating slab, called Larsen A Ice Shelf, covered an area of ... Larsen A 
shattered like a windshield into thousands of icebergs, each larger than an 
aircraft carrier. Booms erupted from the fracturing ice, and the island shook. ... A 
and several other ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula has yielded... [DOC] [TLE] Quick Facts on Ice Sheets | National Snow and Ice Data Center [PAR] Together, the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets contain more than 99 ... At 
higher elevations, an increase in winter snow accumulation has partially offset 
the ... have led to increased melt and faster glacier movement at the island's 
edges. [DOC] [TLE] Antarctica: Facts About the Coldest Continent - Live Science [PAR] Jul 18, 2012 ... Most of Antarctica is covered with ice; less than half a percent of the ... The West 
Antarctic Ice Sheet sits below sea level today, but 34 ... West Antarctica, on the 
other hand, is a series of frozen islands ... deep span the continent, hidden by 
only a shallow layer of snow. ... Antarctica has no trees or bushes. [DOC] [TLE] Antarctica and the Arctic compared, Differences and Similarities [PAR] Antarctica vs Arctic - How do the polar regions differ and how are they similar? ... 
The poles have 5 months of daylight, then a month of twilight, then 5 months of 
night ... Greenland has the largest ice cap in the Arctic (and second largest in the 
... and larger expanses on a number of Antarctic and sub Antarctic islands (
though... [DOC] [TLE] ice sheet - National Geographic Society [PAR] Aug 16, 2012 ... An ice sheet is a mass of glacial ice more than 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 
square miles). ... Today, there are only two ice sheets in the world: the Antarctic 
ice sheet and ... Greenland, the largest island in the world, would become an ... 
Antarctica has been covered by an ice sheet for 40 million years. [DOC] [TLE] Ross Ice Shelf | Antarctica | Britannica.com [PAR] Ross Ice Shelf, world's largest body of floating ice, lying at the head of Ross Sea, 
itself ... The shelf has served as an important gateway for explorations of the 
Antarctic ... on Ross Island to the west and the jutting Edward VII Peninsula on 
the east. ... the ice shelf's thickness gradually increases to more than 2,300 feet (
700 m). [DOC] [TLE] The "Unstable" West Antarctic Ice Sheet: A Primer | NASA [PAR] May 12, 2014 ... Antarctica is so harsh and remote that scientists only began true investigation of 
its ice ... It was identified then and remains today the single largest threat of rapid 
sea level rise. Why is West Antarctica's ice sheet considered "unstable"? ... Pine 
Island and Thwaites glaciers have experienced significant flow... [DOC] [TLE] Just a nudge could collapse West Antarctic Ice Sheet, raise sea ... [PAR] Nov 2, 2015 ... It won't take much to cause the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapseand ... 
call the weak underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, has retreated ... But 
when the glacier retreats past that bulwark, it will collapse into the ocean; then ... 
two vulnerable glaciers, Thwaites and the Pine Island Glacier. [DOC] [TLE] Mass

Question: Only Antarctica has a larger ice sheet than this island
Answer: Greenland