On Saturday, 28 February 2015 21:01:02 UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:04:21 -0000
"General" wrote:

OK, that makes some sense. But I'd have preferred to see the landmass
still outlined separately from the shelves.


Yes, that would have been more useful. All I can suggest is to compare
those ice charts with this map of Antarctica which shows the land and
ice shelves.
http://www.mapsofworld.com/antarctica/

Graham,

The ice shelves are shown in dark grey on a map you linked:
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/am..._AMSR2_nic.png

Cheers, Alastair.