Ice tongue

The Erebus Ice Tongue, coming off the Erebus Glacier from 3,800 m (12,500 ft). Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica. The ice tongue is protruding into McMurdo Sound (frozen in this image).

An ice tongue is a long and narrow sheet of ice projecting out from the coastline. An ice tongue forms when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into the ocean or a lake.

The two most common examples of an ice tongue are the Erebus Ice Tongue and the Drygalski Ice Tongue.

References

"Erebus Ice Tongue". NASA Earth Observatory. Archived from the original on 2006-10-01. Retrieved 2006-05-19.

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