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As the ice stream accelerates it is also getting steeper. The rate of thinning within the central trunk has quadrupled from 1995 to 2006. If the current rate of acceleration were to continue the main trunk of the glacier could be afloat within 100 years | As the ice stream accelerates it is also getting steeper. The rate of thinning within the central trunk has quadrupled from 1995 to 2006. If the current rate of acceleration were to continue the main trunk of the glacier could be afloat within 100 years | ||
===Sif Island=== | |||
The retreating glacier has revealed a previously unknown island beneath its ice, [[Sif Island]]. The island was first visited and studied in 2020 after its existence was confirmed by satellite imagery. | |||
==Subglacial volcano== | ==Subglacial volcano== | ||