Ekström Ice Shelf

The Ekström Ice Shelf is the ice shelf lying between Sorasen Ridge and Halvfarryggen Ridge, on the Princess Martha Coast of Queen [Maud Land]. It was first mapped by the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition , and named for Bertil Ekström, a Swedish mechanical engineer with the NBSAE, who drowned when the weasel he was driving plunged over the edge of Quar [Ice Shelf] on February 24, 1951.
The ice shelf occupies an area of. It is thick at the edge, and rises above the sea level. Germany's Neumayer [Station III] is to the northeast at Atka Bay.