An animation from November 2017 to current. Early years are single frames at 360, and recent years are 12 frames at 30, roughly equaled time lapse. Land Glacier is to the right. Nickerson Ice Shelf spans west to the left, which is largely constrained by shallow bathymetry and island mass. Toward Newman Island, and at Groves Island, there is calving potential in the near future. Ice bergs ground and grind across the frontal ocean which is largely shallower than the inner depths below the ice shelf. Deep channels extend inland beneath high elevation continental sheet ice. Openings widen for underflow.
Seasonal sea ice can remain fasted for multiple years. Ice has held fast for about 6 months, retaining much of the separated tongue melange within the vicinity, though it is holding no restraint on the velocity of Land Glacier.