Antarctic Peninsula. Satellite image of ice fields near Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, 121 km lon

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Antarctic Peninsula. Satellite image of ice fields near Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, 121 km long and 32 km wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Imaged by the GeoEye-1 satellite on 18th April 2012, from an altitude of 681 km above the Earth.

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Size: 3000px × 3000px
Photo credit: © GEOEYE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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