# Antarctic Ice Shelf Hanging by a Thread

*Published:* 2008-03-25
*Author:* Sheryl Canter

![Sheryl Canter](https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2008/02/sheryl_canter.jpg)*This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense Fund.*

[A huge Antarctic ice berg – seven times the size of Manhattan – is close to breaking off](http://nsidc.org/news/press/20080325_Wilkins.html), supported only by a thin strip of ice hanging between two islands.

Part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, the berg was captured in satellite and video images by [British Antarctic Survey](http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=376) (BAS), which said, “It is another identifiable impact of climate change on the Antarctic environment.”

![Wilkins Ice Shelf from Bas Twin Otter](https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2008/03/wilkins_ice_shelf_from_bas_twin_otter_2_500px.jpg)