[WSGilcrest]

"The ice shelf is the floating end of the Pine Island Glacier, a slow-moving river of ice in West Antarctica that moves ice from the interior of the continent out to sea. "

Can someone please explain to me where West Antarctica starts?

[okie01]

Can someone please explain to me where West Antarctica starts?

Where East Antarctica begins.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

Can someone please explain to me where West Antarctica starts?

Go north on main street, Antarctica, and turn left. You are now in West Antarctica.

[ejonesie22]

Looking North you will go to your rig...

Wait, your are near the South Pole. So looking north you would go your left...

Unless you are looking from the east side which would be on your...

Wait...

If you are actually at the South Pole, no, there everything would be north...

Come think of it lets just stay in the Florida Keys, much warmer and I know where Key West is...

[70times7]

Can someone please explain to me where West Antarctica starts?

LOL - seriously - I loled. That is a great catch!

BTW, If I was pressed for an answer... if someone walks 3' from the south pole and turns left 90 degrees and then walks the circumference of a 6' diameter circle around the pole, they are headed west.