Ice tongue
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An ice tongue is a long and narrow sheet of ice projecting out from the coastline.
An ice tongue forms when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into the ocean or a lake.
Westarctica has many ice tongues along its coast, the most famous being the Thwaites Ice Tongue.