ice shelf

Noun

 * 1) A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.

Translations

 * Catalan: plataforma de gel, barrera de gel, altiplà de gel
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 冰架
 * Finnish: mannerjäähylly
 * French: plateforme de glace
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese: plataforma de gelo
 * Russian: шельфовые ледники
 * Spanish: plataforma de hielo flotante, barrera de hielo, meseta de hielo