The diploma-mill o'er the ridge warned last January about thath Thwaiteth Thweath. Looking around the 'web, Thwaites seems to get warned about every January. Around the antipole, "January" corresponds to "July". As Antarctica approaches the long night we hear rather less about the Rapidly Melting Glaciers.
I got interested because I was pondering natural caverns under ice, how stable they might be. A few years ago a topography of Antarctica's land was pinged; the fabled Ross Ice Shelf, thereby, got ruled not a problem. Attention then shifted to Thwaites.
Thwaites has come up as host to an under-Manhattan like in Futurama. Or maybe it's double the size. Or two-thirds. Either way, Manhattan's sixty square kilometers of land plus thirty of water(?) is the standard.
This cavern, then, seems not stable.
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