The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration [2] that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island.
Prof. David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said: "Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last fifty years.