The region " can be described as the wildest place on earth _ a smoking volcano under a burden of snow and glacial ice rising above the world's stormiest waters,"
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Though originally recorded as an island, later research has shown that the ground surface under the ice is below sea level, indicating that " ice rise " might be a more accurate naming.
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Iceland is the most geographically remote of Europe's nations _ a thinly-populated realm of fire and ice rising from the North Atlantic, just below the Arctic Circle _ but it's plugged in, powered up and prosperous.
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Following survey and mapping as an ice rise in the Wordie Ice Shelf by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958, this feature was named " Napier Ice Rise " by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee ( UK-APC ).
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Following survey and mapping as an ice rise in the Wordie Ice Shelf by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958, this feature was named " Napier Ice Rise " by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee ( UK-APC ).
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Following survey by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958 it was named " Buffer Ice Rise " by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee ( UK-APC ) because it obstructed the northwestward flow of the ice shelf in this vicinity.
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The " Magic Island " area only appeared in 2014 and may be waves, bubbles or subsurface ice rising to the surface as the lake warms up during spring, or possibly silt like material suspended in the liquid hydrocarbon sea.
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The toponym provides a historical footnote that U . S . scientist Albert P . Crary, for whom Crary Ice Rise is also named, led geophysical traverses past this feature to the Polar Plateau en route to the South Pole and other destinations.
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An ice rise forms where the ice shelf touches the rocky seabed because of an elevation in the seabed that remains below sea level . ( In contrast, an elevation in the seabed that extends above sea level is defined as an island ).
