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In the image along with the Brunt Ice Shelf is the ice covered Lyddan Island, which resembles the tail of a whale (right of picture).
The image was taken by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument onboard the European Space Agency’s Envisat on 5 March, 2011. ASAR is particularly suited to taking images of Antarctica, as it is able to see through clouds and darkness, conditions you would expect for the southern-most point of our planet.
Source: European Space Agency
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