20: Antarctic Mainland#
The region encompasses mainland Antarctica. In the RGI, the region does not include any glaciers (yet).
Subregions
20-01: Antarctic Mainland
Changes from version 6.0 to 7.0#
This region was added in RGI 7.0. The previous first-order region 19 was split into two regions: former subregion 19-31 was removed from region 19 and now defines the new first-order region 20. The split was motivated by the fact that RGI 7.0 and all previous versions included a complete inventory of the glaciers on the islands in the periphery of mainland Antarctica, but no glaciers on the mainland itself, although inventories (though incomplete) exist.
Additional information#
Version history
This region was added in v7.0