We used 1,000 historical photos to reconstruct Antarctic glaciers before a dramatic collapse
- Written by Ryan North, PhD Researcher in Antarctic Geomorphology, University of Wollongong
Looking up Crane Glacier, December 21 1968.PGC, UMN, CC BYIn March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically, breaking up an area about one-sixth the size of Tasmania.
In a paper published today in Scientific Reports, we used nearly 1,000 film photographs of Antarctica from the 1960s to reconstruct exactly what five glaciers were like...





