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New Antarctic island spotted as mammoth glacier retreats

An uncharted island off Antarctica’s western coast could reveal how climate change is altering the continent.

'Wellner is one of the principal investigators of the Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research project, part of an international collaboration to study the stability of a massive glacier in West Antarctica. An expedition to collect samples from the exposed shoreline has thus far been hampered by bad weather, but Wellner says that surveying the island is one of the science team’s top priorities."

Although the island is big enough to be visible by satellite, its icy cap helped it escape previous detection. And because very few ships travel that far south, Wellner’s team is probably the first to set eyes on it. Researchers don’t yet know how long it has been above sea level, but it is likely that the land was exposed thanks to climate change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00489-4

I've seen a movie like this. Kong: King of Skull Island.

It didn't end well.