I dont want to feed into the Cypher9 trollfest, but since it came up...
I, for one, would like to see the FE evidence that the Ice Wall exists, complete with the names and dates of who made the observations, which flights/voyages they were part of, what studies they were in the region to undertake, etc.
When was someone turned around at the ice wall, prevented by authorities from travelling further south?
The wiki cites famed explorer James Ross, who didnt venture inland, but then ignores subsequent trip logs from those who did. Why shouldnt we believe that recent trips to the south pole are really happening?
The wiki provides a video showing the ice wall, but the original footage was collected as part of a research expedition travelling in between research stations on the continent. What flight was it? Who was part of that expedition? Where else did they travel? What studies were they conducting?
The wiki states that only 5% of the coastline is rocky, the rest is ice, citing Drewry, 1983. This was a compilation of available data on Antarctica at the time. The wiki doesnt seem to dive into the fact that the Drewry 1983 numbers on shoreline composition rely heavily on airborne geophysical data (I.e. how do they know whether the shore is an ice shelf or an 'ice wall'? Ice-penetrating radar data). If these airborne geophysics are trusted for ice wall composition figures, what makes the rest of the hundreds of thousands of line-kilometers of data collected across the continent?
And if a compilation from 1983 is to be trusted, why arent the newer compilations, like BEDMAP, trustworthy?