West Antarctic Ice Sheet

West Antarctic Ice Sheet - segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West (or Lesser) Antarctica. Article “West Antarctic Ice Sheet” in English Wikipedia has 97.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 190 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “West Antarctic Ice Sheet”, its content was written by 133 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 221 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1075 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1498 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11093 in May 2014
• Global: #35477 in May 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #66426 in May 2014
• Global: #124048 in May 2014

There are 16 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) West Antarctic Ice Sheet		97.1429
2	Catalan (ca) Capa de gel de l'Antàrtida Occidental		94.1176
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Den vestantarktiske innlandsisen		61.3166
4	Turkish (tr) Batı Antarktika buz tabakası		41.1139
5	Italian (it) Calotta glaciale dell'Antartide occidentale		28.9859
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tấm băng Tây Nam Cực		22.3667
7	French (fr) Inlandsis Ouest-Antarctique		21.3325
8	Spanish (es) Capa de hielo de la Antártida occidental		20.7239
9	Dutch (nl) West-Antarctische ijskap		19.6708
10	Portuguese (pt) Manto de gelo da Antártida Ocidental		18.0427

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "West Antarctic Ice Sheet" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) West Antarctic Ice Sheet		507 396
2	Japanese (ja) 西南極氷床		19 382
3	Portuguese (pt) Manto de gelo da Antártida Ocidental		18 155
4	French (fr) Inlandsis Ouest-Antarctique		15 892
5	Spanish (es) Capa de hielo de la Antártida occidental		13 566
6	Turkish (tr) Batı Antarktika buz tabakası		5 057
7	Ukrainian (uk) Західноантарктичний льодовиковий щит		4 203
8	Chinese (zh) 西南極冰蓋		3 978
9	Dutch (nl) West-Antarctische ijskap		2 466
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Den vestantarktiske innlandsisen		1 207

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "West Antarctic Ice Sheet" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) West Antarctic Ice Sheet		2 551
2	French (fr) Inlandsis Ouest-Antarctique		66
3	Japanese (ja) 西南極氷床		55
4	Chinese (zh) 西南極冰蓋		41
5	Spanish (es) Capa de hielo de la Antártida occidental		40
6	Dutch (nl) West-Antarctische ijskap		36
7	Portuguese (pt) Manto de gelo da Antártida Ocidental		25
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Den vestantarktiske innlandsisen		23
9	Turkish (tr) Batı Antarktika buz tabakası		18
10	Italian (it) Calotta glaciale dell'Antartide occidentale		15

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "West Antarctic Ice Sheet" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) West Antarctic Ice Sheet		133
2	French (fr) Inlandsis Ouest-Antarctique		25
3	Turkish (tr) Batı Antarktika buz tabakası		10
4	Vietnamese (vi) Tấm băng Tây Nam Cực		9
5	Portuguese (pt) Manto de gelo da Antártida Ocidental		7
6	Spanish (es) Capa de hielo de la Antártida occidental		6
7	Italian (it) Calotta glaciale dell'Antartide occidentale		6
8	Japanese (ja) 西南極氷床		6
9	Ukrainian (uk) Західноантарктичний льодовиковий щит		6
10	Dutch (nl) West-Antarctische ijskap		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "West Antarctic Ice Sheet" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Vietnamese (vi) Tấm băng Tây Nam Cực		1
2	Catalan (ca) Capa de gel de l'Antàrtida Occidental		0
3	Czech (cs) Západoantarktický ledový příkrov		0
4	English (en) West Antarctic Ice Sheet		0
5	Spanish (es) Capa de hielo de la Antártida occidental		0
6	Persian (fa) یخسار جنوبگان باختری		0
7	French (fr) Inlandsis Ouest-Antarctique		0
8	Italian (it) Calotta glaciale dell'Antartide occidentale		0
9	Japanese (ja) 西南極氷床		0
10	Korean (ko) 서남극 빙상		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "West Antarctic Ice Sheet" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) West Antarctic Ice Sheet		1 075
2	Persian (fa) یخسار جنوبگان باختری		79
3	Japanese (ja) 西南極氷床		78
4	Ukrainian (uk) Західноантарктичний льодовиковий щит		75
5	French (fr) Inlandsis Ouest-Antarctique		53
6	Turkish (tr) Batı Antarktika buz tabakası		28
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Den vestantarktiske innlandsisen		22
8	Portuguese (pt) Manto de gelo da Antártida Ocidental		20
9	Spanish (es) Capa de hielo de la Antártida occidental		14
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tấm băng Tây Nam Cực		13

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Capa de gel de l'Antàrtida Occidental
cs	Czech Západoantarktický ledový příkrov
en	English West Antarctic Ice Sheet
es	Spanish Capa de hielo de la Antártida occidental
fa	Persian یخسار جنوبگان باختری
fr	French Inlandsis Ouest-Antarctique
it	Italian Calotta glaciale dell'Antartide occidentale
ja	Japanese 西南極氷床
ko	Korean 서남극 빙상
nl	Dutch West-Antarctische ijskap
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Den vestantarktiske innlandsisen
pt	Portuguese Manto de gelo da Antártida Ocidental
tr	Turkish Batı Antarktika buz tabakası
uk	Ukrainian Західноантарктичний льодовиковий щит
vi	Vietnamese Tấm băng Tây Nam Cực
zh	Chinese 西南極冰蓋

Best Rank

English: #66426 05.2014

Global: #124048 05.2014

Best Rank

English: #11093 05.2014

Global: #35477 05.2014

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