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bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks up OSLO (Reuters) - An
ice bridge which had apparently held a vast Antarctic ice shelf
in place during recorded history shattered on Saturday and could
herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a leading
scientist said. "It's amazing how the ice has ruptured. Two days
ago it was intact," David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the
British Antarctic Survey, told Reuters of a satellite image of
the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. The satellite
picture, from the European Space Agency (ESA), showed that a 40
km (25 mile) long strip of ice believed to pin the Wilkins Ice
Shelf in place had splintered at its narrowest point, about 500
meters wide.