Meanwhile the MV Theron, the ship which had landed them on the Filchner ice shelf bordering the Weddell Sea as sea-ice threatened to trap her, was returning to an exuberant welcome in London, and the new icebreaker ship, Magga Dan, that would go south to relieve and re-supply them, was being launched to much publicity by Fuchs' wife.
The semi-enclosed basin of the Golfe d'Arguin (Northwest Africa) is present on a wide, shallow shelf, bordering the Sahara desert, in a stable tectonic context.
The locally elevated primary productivity in pelagic waters in the Weddell Gyre, and the rich benthic communities on the Antarctic continental shelf bordering the gyre to the south, constitute seasonally predictable food resources for resident as well as long-range migrating predators such as seabirds and marine mammals.
Consequently, the Fly-Digul shelf and bordering highlands are one of the world's wettest places and also one of the least-inhabited.
Any new evidence it collected for the Russian government would eventually have to be submitted to a commission on continental shelf borders, which is elected by members of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
In the Adriatic's southernmost areas the border was not determined in order to avoid prejudicing the location of the tripoint with the Albanian continental shelf border, which remains undefined.
Shackleton Ice Shelf, sheet of floating ice bordering Queen Mary Coast, Antarctica, on the Indian Ocean.
Had they been looking at all?" Given the entrenched supremacy of Italian cookery on our contemporary menus – and the ubiquity of this book on our kitchen shelves – it borders on surreal to think there was a time, pre-David, when we might have been so collectively deluded.
So why plaster books on the shelves with "Borders Staff Pick" labels?
Hard to imagine Vice President Joe Biden emptying the shelves of Borders with a book review, but as Chong Ming, a history professor who studies Alexis de Tocqueville explains, 'In China, officials have a big influence on the political culture.' A recent search of the book on Weibo yielded 235,416 results.
