An ice stream is a region of fast-moving ice within an ice sheet. It is a type of glacier, a body of ice that moves under its own weight. They can move...

Foundation Ice Stream (83°15′S 60°00′W / 83.250°S 60.000°W / -83.250; -60.000 (Foundation Ice Stream)) is a major ice stream in the Pensacola Mountains...

1967-68. 73°30′S 76°30′W / 73.500°S 76.500°W / -73.500; -76.500. An ice stream about 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) long flowing north into Stange...

Shimizu Ice Stream (85°11′S 124°0′W / 85.183°S 124.000°W / -85.183; -124.000) is an ice stream in the Horlick Mountains, draining west-northwest from...

Rutford Ice Stream (79°00′S 81°00′W / 79.000°S 81.000°W / -79.000; -81.000) is a major Antarctic ice stream, about 290 kilometres (180 mi) long and...

Drewry Ice Stream (75°40′00″S 073°00′00″W / 75.66667°S 73.00000°W / -75.66667; -73.00000) is an ice stream in eastern Ellsworth Land that flows southwest...

Whillans Ice Stream (83°40′S 145°00′W / 83.667°S 145.000°W / -83.667; -145.000) is a glaciological feature of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, formerly...

Wiesnet Ice Stream is an ice stream about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long flowing into Venable Ice Shelf west of Allison Peninsula. Named by Advisory Committee...

This ice stream drains part of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet into the glacier. It is nearly 800 kilometres (500 mi) long and feeds the Filchner Ice Shelf...

Alison Ice Stream is an ice stream about 8 nautical miles (15 km) long flowing into Eltanin Bay south of Wirth Peninsula, Antarctica. It was named by...

Evans Ice Stream is a large ice stream draining from Ellsworth Land, between Cape Zumberge and Fowler Ice Rise, into the western part of the Ronne Ice Shelf...

Fox Ice Stream (73°28′S 85°29′W / 73.467°S 85.483°W / -73.467; -85.483) is an ice stream about 6 nautical miles (11 km) long flowing into Eltanin Bay...

the ice sheet so that it flows more rapidly. This process produces fast-flowing channels in the ice sheet — these are ice streams. Even stable ice sheets...

ice sheet are called ice streams. In Antarctica, many ice streams drain into large ice shelves. Some drain directly into the sea, often with an ice tongue...

a list of Antarctic ice streams. A complete list of Antarctic ice streams is not available. Names and locations of Antarctic ice features, including those...

seven ice streams that drain into the Ross Ice Shelf, the Bindschadler and Whillans ice streams are the most extensive. The seven ice streams discharge...

centre of the stream, and are bounded by slow-moving ice on either side. Periods of greater ice stream flow result in more ice transfer from ice sheets to...

The Echelmeyer Ice Stream (79°10′S 150°00′W / 79.167°S 150.000°W / -79.167; -150.000), formerly known as Ice Stream F, is a glaciological feature of...

Antarctica. The lake is located under the Whillans Ice Stream at the southeastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in the west of the continent. The lake surface...

extending into the North Atlantic Ocean far enough to block the Gulf Stream. Ice sheets that form during glaciations erode the land beneath them. This...

enhance basal ice motion in a complex manner. The "Recovery Lakes" beneath Antarctica's Recovery Glacier lie at the head of a major ice stream and may influence...

Kamb Ice Stream (82°15′S 145°00′W / 82.250°S 145.000°W / -82.250; -145.000), a glaciological feature of the Ross Ice Shelf of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet...

contribute little to the volume of ice flow. After entering the Ross Ice Shelf the Reedy Glacier becomes the Mercer Ice Stream. In the past it has been at least...

precipitation. However meltwater from the continent's ice features produce a number of rivers and streams. A list of these can be found at List of rivers of...

Horlick Ice Stream (85°17′S 132°00′W / 85.283°S 132.000°W / -85.283; -132.000 (Horlick Ice Stream)), a large ice stream on the featureless ice surface...

Ferrigno Ice Stream (73°43′S 83°49′W / 73.717°S 83.817°W / -73.717; -83.817) is an ice Stream more than 15 nautical miles (28 km) long flowing into...

the region of a tributary of Bindschadler Ice Stream, West Antarctica where rapid vertical motion of the ice sheet surface has suggested shifting of a...

Möller Ice Stream (82°20′S 63°30′W / 82.333°S 63.500°W / -82.333; -63.500) is an Antarctic ice stream that drains an area of 66,000 square kilometres...

stream had actually strengthened. Finally, a 2021 study was able to reconstruct jet stream patterns over the past 1,250 years based on Greenland ice cores...

The Institute Ice Stream (82°S 75°W / 82°S 75°W / -82; -75) is an ice stream flowing north into the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, southeast of Hercules...