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There are two islands, Black Island and White Island, that
are separated by
White Strait, but the water in between them has frozen causing an
ice bridge between the islands as far as I can tell. I would like
to use satellite imagery to record the strait and see if the ice bridge
is melting. Then determine how much each day that it melts and
use this information to determine how long it would take until the islands
split completely. We could use this information to predict other
splitting if global warming affects other areas of Antarctica. The
coordinates of this strait is 78 degrees S, 166 degrees E
The picture of this site can be found at:
http://lima.usgs.gov/antarctic_research_atlas/viewer.htm?BBOX=262231.1993:-1282629.8041:302231.1993:-1242629.8041&LIMA_CHECK=LIMA_GNIS
Further details can be found at:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:16531
See .pdf USGS map of area
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