{"id":353549,"date":"2026-01-09T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=353549"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:28:14","slug":"thwaites-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/thwaites-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Thwaites Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The pattern of fractures in the ice of the Thwaites Glacier, which is the outflow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, shows how the rest the Antarctic Ice Shelf could collapse in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>About Thwaites Glacier<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_353551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353551\" style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-353551\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Britannica-3.jpg?resize=355%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thwaites Glacier\" width=\"355\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Britannica-3.jpg?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Britannica-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C627&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Britannica-3.jpg?resize=768%2C470&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Britannica-3.jpg?w=1363&amp;ssl=1 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Thwaites Glacier<\/strong> is a massive <strong>Antarctic ice feature<\/strong> in <strong>West Antarctica<\/strong> critical to global sea level dynamics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is located <strong>east of Mount Murphy<\/strong>, on the <strong>Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land<\/strong> in <strong>Antarctica<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>commonly known<\/strong> as the <strong>\u2018Doomsday Glacier\u2019<\/strong> because of its potential to significantly add to worldwide sea levels.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Naming:<\/strong> It is named after the late American glaciologist Fredrik T. Thwaites.<\/li>\n<li>The glacier is <strong>flowing<\/strong> into <strong>Pine Island Bay<\/strong> which is a part of the <strong>Amundsen Sea<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Size and area:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Width:<\/strong> It is <strong>120 km<\/strong> <strong>wide<\/strong> and is the <strong>single widest glacier<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thickness:<\/strong> It is also very tall, with ice thickness from bedrock to surface measuring between 800 m and 1,200 m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Area:<\/strong> It has an area of <strong>192,000 sq. km<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>larger than the American state of Florida<\/strong> and a <strong>little smaller<\/strong> than the <strong>entire island of Great Britain.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>It is <strong>one of the fastest changing ice-ocean systems<\/strong> on the planet.\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>complete melting<\/strong> of the glacier could <strong>add 65 cm to global sea levels.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The pattern of fractures in the ice of the Thwaites Glacier, which is the outflow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, shows how the rest the Antarctic Ice Shelf could collapse in the future. About Thwaites Glacier The Thwaites Glacier is a massive Antarctic ice feature in West Antarctica critical to global sea level&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/thwaites-glacier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thwaites Glacier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-353549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}